The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each 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 February 3, 1870, [1] as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. In the final years of the American Civil War and the ... More @Wikipedia
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