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.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
What I think the Fifteenth Amendment means is that it allowed black people to vote. But It gave voting rights to free men regardless of race, color or an individual ever having been a slave. Thirty years later is when women had the right to vote. It was ratified on February 3, 1870.
I chose this picture for the fifteenth amendment because it shows a black man casting a vote and one speaks to the rightrs granted under the 15th amendment. This image use to be impossible but now under section two of amendment 15 congress has made this possible and has enforced the amendment as a law.
I chose this video because it does a good job on retelling you about the amendments 13-15 and it helps you better understand them.
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