Thomas Kelley, “The Fifteenth Amendment,” 1870, viaWikimedia. This 1870 print celebrated the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Here we see several of the themes most important to Black Americans during Reconstruction: The print celebrates the military achievements of Black veterans, the voting r...
Some have argued that the Fifteenth Amendment (1870), which guaranteed the voting rights of black men, implicitly repealed the disenfranchisement provisions of the Fourteenth. Why felons can't vote Spurred by the lingering controversy, Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment, which duplicated many ...
Fifteenth Amendment, amendment (1870) to the U.S. Constitution that guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on ‘race, color, or previous condition of servitude.’ Its ratification effectively enfranchised African American men while d