The American Civil War ended in the late spring of 1865 ... was a requirement for readmission to the union. The Fifteenth ...

The 15th Amendment was a milestone for civil rights. The amendment was ratified in February 1870. We had just fought a Civil War, ending in 1865, where soldiers fought brother against brother and ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.