The 15th Amendment.
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George Washington Julian wrote the fifteenth amendment of the United States of America. In his amendment, he gave voting rights even to African Americans.
It made poll taxes illegal.
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they had to take literacy tests
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 granted African Americans the legal right to vote.
African Americans
In 1964 the Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibited the use of poll taxes. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act directed the Attorney General to enforce the right to vote for African Americans. The 1965 Voting Rights Act created a significant change in the status of African Americans throughout the South.
George Washington Julian wrote the fifteenth amendment of the United States of America. In his amendment, he gave voting rights even to African Americans.
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15th ammement
The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the US Constitution gave citizenship and voting rights to African-Americans.
It made poll taxes illegal.
Africans Americans were given the ability to vote by the fifteenth amendment to the U.S Constitution.
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