EnlargeDownload Link Citation: The House Joint Resolution Proposing the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, ; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1999; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives View All Pages in the National Archives Catalog View Transcript Passed by Congress , and ratified ...
The 15th Amendment, which sought to protect the voting rights of Black men after the Civil War, was adopted into the U.S. Constitution in 1870. Despite the amendment, within a few years numerous ...
Ratified in 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote. This guide provides access to digital collections at the Library of Congress, external websites, and print materials related to the amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government or any state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on , [1] as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. In the final years of the American Civil War and the ...
The correct form is 15th, not 15st. In English, ordinal numbers (numbers showing order) have specific endings: -st, -nd, -rd, and -th. The ending -th is used for most numbers except for 1, 2, and 3, which are special cases. For example, when talking about dates, we say January 15th and not January 15st. This rule helps keep our communication clear and consistent, ensuring everyone understands ...
Fifteenth Amendment is an 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 denying the right to vote to women of all colors.