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3
Febrüari
1870

Fifteenth Amendment prohibits race-based denial of voting rights

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The amendment barred federal and state governments from denying the vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Black voters and officeholders helped reshape Reconstruction politics. The amendment did not protect against every form of racial disenfranchisement, and later violence and law undermined its promise.

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Black voters and organizers

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State legislatures