It's during Reconstruction that we get the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing citizenship ... 25% of the white electorate was ...

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Passed by Congress on March 3, 1869, and ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth ... and fears of a political backlash led the committee to abandon the issue before the proposed amendment came to the ...

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Eric Foner, a Columbia University historian told NPR, "Because of the 15th Amendment, you can't pass laws saying blacks can't vote, which is what they wanted to do … But the 15th Amendment ...

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 ...

Saturday marks 154 years since the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution – Feb. 3, 1870 – which guaranteed Black men the right to vote. Given it’s Black History Month and ...

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Terming it a "motivated amendment", he said the 15th amendment was brought so that a particular political party can remain in power for successive terms. Sharif, a senior lawyer of the Supreme ...

The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment chose not to include political rights (such as the right to vote, which the Fifteenth Amendment would later address) and social rights within the ...