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On this day in history, February 3, 1870, 15th Amendment is ratified, granting Black males the right to vote
On this day in history, Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of ...
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This constitutional amendment revolutionized voting in U.S. and preceded women's suffrage
Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Fifteenth Amendment was the last of three Reconstruction Amendments. The first two were ratified in 1865 and 1868, respectively. The 15th ...
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Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment ...