15th Amendment

Proposed February 26th, 1869, ratified on February 3rd, 1870
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.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Breakdown...
 
First African-American to vote was Thomas Mundy Peterson on March 31, 1870 in Perth Amboy, NJ.

• Gave the right Vote to African Americans
• Did not prohibit Southern States from placing mandatory poll taxes to keep African American's/specific social classes from voting.
• Conditioned the territory of Nebraska into the Union.

This image depicts the harsh reality that although African Americans were given the right to vote under the 15th Amendment, they really did not have a good leader that was for African American rights at the time.


This image (the words are difficult to read) depicts that although black men were given the right to vote, most of whom could not even read or write, woman who for the most part more educated at the time were still prohibited from voting. The black men are seemingly pushed to vote for a particular party without knowledge of that party, you can see the white men with their smug seemingly rude faces holding on to the clothes of the black man pointing toward the ballot box seemingly manipulating their votes, while another white man holds his hand up to halt a group of young woman in line to vote.