Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The 15th amendment gives citizen who were previously denied the right to vote because of race the right to vote. The US finally got all of the rights for the freed slaves. But why did it have to take 3 amendments? Because America is afraid of change. Always has and always will be. Another interesting comment, there is still not mention of women having the right to vote.
This guy talk about the 14th amendment at his work (I know this from other videos he made) and gives a basic thought on it.
This picture is commonly represents the 15th amendment because it shows the "reconstruction" that the pervious video was talking about.
I think this admendment granted African American males the right to vote. However, women were not allow to vote until another 50 years later with the ratification of the 19th Admendment. Even after the ratification of the 15th Amendment, African American still being denied to vote in many southern states.
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