WASHINGTON (WCSC) — Congress ratified the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1870, a move that gave Black men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the right to vote could not be ...
An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation torn ...
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