Finally, on March 30, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment became part of the Constitution. To many, it felt like the last step of reconstruction. But just as some had predicted, Southerners found ways ...

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as the “Reconstruction Amendments,” but what happens if one or all of them get stripped from American history? Trump Taking a Page From a ...

And the Fifteenth Amendment did not protect only ... In this way, Plessy rejected not only the Reconstruction Amendments, but the philosophy behind them. The amendments were built on the idea ...

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Fewer than 20 percent of state political offices in the South were held by blacks at the height of Reconstruction. Still, these represented spectacular gains. Not surprisingly, the 15th Amendment ...

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 Methodist Church for colored people corner of West Tenth and Bleecker streets, was crowded last evening by colored and white citizens to celebrate the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic ... voting rights that wouldn’t be more firmly cemented until the 15th Amendment was ratified two years later. Diehard ex-rebels used violence ...

Foner points out that the three amendments originated in Congress in the post-Civil War era, when the Radical Republicans controlled Congress during Reconstruction, but it was the fifteenth ...