Though the language of the Fifteenth Amendment prohibits all race-based discrimination in qualifications for voting ... discrimination with respect to the rights to vote and hold office.

Voting rights for freed Black people ... Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth ...

We need a Voting Rights Act for the 21st century, one that goes beyond the anti-discrimination focus of the 15th Amendment and fulfills the broader promise of equal citizenship promised by the ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is widely considered to be the ... Adopted essentially as an enforcement mechanism for the 15th Amendment’s guarantee that the right to vote cannot be abridged “on ...

Democrats and Republicans are afraid that their civil rights and their civil liberties are in jeopardy and look to the courts to protect their 14th and 15th Amendment rights.

Americans have demonstrated, fought, lobbied, struck, boycotted, politicked, suffered, and voted so nearly every adult ...

Voting is the cornerstone of democracy ... History Museum exhibition Make Good the Promises explores the struggle to secure the promise of the 15th Amendment. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent ...

Voting rights for freed Black people ... Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth ...