Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment ...

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Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment ...

This glimpse into the past highlights the thin connection that existed between citizenship and the right to vote, before Congress and the states ratified the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.

The Hungarian parliament is deliberating on the proposal for the fifteenth amendment to the constitution, which would ...

The Hungarian parliament is considering the proposal for the fifteenth amendment to the constitution, which would introduce ...

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 ...

Eric Foner, a Columbia University historian told NPR, "Because of the 15th Amendment, you can't pass laws saying blacks can't vote, which is what they wanted to do … But the 15th Amendment ...

On December 17, 2024, the High Court declared several provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution invalid, including the abolition of the caretaker government system. With this ruling, the ...

Mountlake Terrace High School is one of 16 schools named by the Journalism Education Association Thursday as a 2025 First Amendment Press Freedom Award ...