The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits all governments in the United States (Federal, State, City, Municipal) to deny any man from voting in any election based on race or servitude. The amendment was ratified February 3, 1870. This was one of the Reconstruction amendment. Women were not provided the right until 1920.
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Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
The Fifteenth Amendment is one of the Reconstruction Amendments. It prohibits each government in the US from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was made into law on February 3, 1870.
The 15th amendment guarantees all citizens of the US the right to vote regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. As long as you were a male citizen that is.
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All African Americans became citizens as a result of the 14th Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment eliminated race as a restriction on voting.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.