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Thomas Mundy Peterson was the first African-American to vote under the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870. He voted on a referendum over revision of the town charter for Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

He was not, however, the first black person to vote in the United States, as is often mistakenly claimed. Some early state constitutions had no provisions for limiting suffrage or used language broad enough that it did not specifically exclude anyone based on either race or gender.

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