Over 155 years ago on Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified, giving Black men the right to vote.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on this day in 1870. The amendment granted African American men the right to vote by stating that the right to vote ...
Black History Month was founded a century ago as Negro History Week. February was selected in honor of great abolitionist ...
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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