Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment ...

The act contains a number of important provisions, but today it is Section 2 of the act that continues to have the greatest impact. Adopted essentially as an enforcement mechanism for the 15th ...

📅 Today in History: In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing a citizen’s right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on ...

Responding to Paul Wilson’s letter (“Trump ignores Constitution,” Our Readers’ Views, Jan. 31), a study of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments is in order. A great war tore our nation apart ...