15th Amendment

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/29/2021
  

  The Lack of Federal Voting Rights Protections Returns Us to the Pre-Civil War Era

  by Kate Masur

  New vote suppression bills in multiple states threaten to return the United States not to the Jim Crow era but to the period before the Civil War and Reconstruction when civil and political rights were protected or denied according to state politics. 

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• SOURCE: American Civil War Museum
  3/30/2020
  

  15th Turns 150!

  The presence of new citizens in the form of formerly enslaved people forced Congress to consider what citizenship and voting actually meant. 

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• 2/23/20
  

  Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the 15th Amendment

  by Alan Singer

  February 2020 is the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution declaring “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.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/15/20
  

  The Equality That Wasn’t Enough

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The most radical Radical Republicans had a better idea of how to cast the 15th Amendment. We should have listened to them.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/3/20
  

  What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification

  by Tiffany Mitchell Patterson

  Here are some suggestions for educators and others interested in learning more about that time period.