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 ...

Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...

Austin Fisher A proposed amendment to the New Mexico Constitution that would extend the right to vote to people incarcerated ...

On February 26, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Andrew Brimmer as the first Black governor of the Federal Reserve ...

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 ...

14th and 15th amendments is in order. A great war tore our nation apart over slavery. After the war but before reunification, the 13th Amendment was passed to officially free the slaves.

Pildat analysis shows bills were rushed through lower house without much discussion; PM attended only 17 out of 93 sessions ...

In other words, the Congressmen intended to enfranchise former slaves. Congress passed the fifteenth amendment on February 26, 1869, and the necessary number of states ratified it on February 3 ...

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 ...