On this day in history, Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of ...

Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment on February 26, 1869. But some states resisted ratification. At one point, the ratification count stood at 17 Republican states approving the amendment and ...

be approved by Congress in 1919 and ratified by three-fourths of the states in 1920. Sargent’s proposal simply repeated the language of the Fifteenth Amendment save for one change: whereas the ...

The 15th Amendment gave African-American men ... and the 19th Amendment was promulgated on August 26. Before the 19th Amendment was ratified, women were allowed to vote in a limited number of ...

In 1972, when Congress proposed the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification, it specified a seven-year period for ratification. That seven-year period expired on March 22 ...

In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ...

The Civil Rights Movement never ended. It’s in a new phase.

Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment on February 26, 1869. But some states resisted ratification. At one point, the ratification count stood at 17 Republican states approving the amendment and ...

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