The 15th Amendment protected all citizens from being discriminated against in voting because of race.

Douglass ' support for the 15th Amendment, which failed to give women the vote, led to a temporary estrangement between him and the women's rights movement.

The American Equal Rights Association ( AERA ), which had originally fought for both blacks ’ and women ’ s right to suffrage, voted to support the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, granting suffrage to black men, but not women.

* February 3 – The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing African-Americans the right to vote, is passed.

** The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving blacks the right to vote, is ratified.

He hailed the passage of the 15th Amendment as a triumph, and he favored the re-admission of Georgia to the Union as a matter of right, not politics.

The 15th Amendment, proposed in late February 1869 and passed in early February 1870, decreed that the right to vote could not be denied because of " race, color, or previous condition of servitude ".

Echoing the language of the 15th Amendment, the Act prohibits states from imposing any " voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.

During that election, certain election officers refused to allow black citizens to vote ; those officers were indicted and convicted of fraudulently disfranchishing black voters, in violation of the 15th Amendment and in violation of Oklahoma State Law.

| In 1870 the 15th Amendment granted suffrage to African Americans, and in 1920 the 19th Amendment extended the franchise to women.

After African Americans gained the right to vote under the 15th Amendment in 1870, Phillips switched his attention to other issues, such as women's rights, universal suffrage, temperance and the labor movement.

Thomas Mundy Peterson ( October 6, 1824 – February 4, 1904 ) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey was the first African-American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In 1870, however, five years after the Civil War, the 15th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution was ratified, giving blacks throughout the United States the same voting rights as whites.

Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | 15th Amendment, or the Darkey's millenium-40 acres of land and a mule, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.

*" Race, color, or previous condition of servitude "-( 15th Amendment, 1870 )

" He wanted the 15th Amendment of the U. S. Constitution repealed.

Representative Henry Cabot Lodge and Senator George Hoar led a renewed effort in early 1890, when Lodge introduced a Federal Elections Bill to enforce provisions of the 15th Amendment giving citizens the right to vote.

When Sarah was nearly 80, to test the 15th Amendment, the sisters attempted to vote.

The 15th Amendment ( ratified in 1870 ) stated that race could not be used as a condition to deprive men of the ability to vote.

* 1870: USA – 15th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibits voting rights discrimination on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of slavery.

In the United States of America, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act enforced the 15th Amendment, and the 24th Amendment ended poll taxing, removing all tax placed upon voting.

In the mid-1970s she learned about a little-known historical quirk — Kentucky had never ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the U. S. Constitution.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.

However, if their United States income is not subject to the withholding of tax on wages, their returns are due June 15, 1962, if they use a calendar year, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of their fiscal year.

If A taxpayer dies, the executor, administrator, or legal representative must file the final return for the decedent on or before the 15th day of the 4th month following the close of the deceased taxpayer's normal tax year.

Returns of estates or trusts are due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of the tax year.

He could read on the nearby scoreboard that Palmer, by then playing the 15th hole, was leading him by a stroke.

At the time Caesar was killed on the Ides of March ( the 15th ) 44 BC, Octavius was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria.

The Jewish holiday Tu Bishvat, the new year for trees, is on the 15th day of the month of Shvat, which usually falls in January or February.

In the early 15th century, advances in weaponry allowed infantry to defeat armoured knights on the battlefield.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

The influential Leoussi family originated on the isle of Aigina ; their roots go as far back as the 15th century.

In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes.

The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.

Breviary, ink, paint and gold on parchment ; third quarter 15th century ( Walters Art Museum ).

Roman Dutch common law relies on legal principles set out in Roman law sources such as Justinian's Institutes and Digest, and also on the writing of Dutch jurists of the 15th century such as Grotius and Voet.

Once this islands were covered with savanna on the plains and arid shrubland on the mountainsides, but over 500 years of human habtitation, since colonisation by the Portuguese in the 15th century, nearly all the original vegetation has been cleared by widespread agriculture including the grazing of goats, sheep and cattle and the planting of imported crop species.

In the 2011 International Professional Ranking of Higher Education Institutions, which is established on the basis of the number of alumni holding a post of Chief executive officer ( CEO ) or equivalent in one of the Fortune Global 500 companies, Chalmers University of Technology ranked 38th in the world, ranking 1st in Sweden and 15th in Europe.

The 153rd Engineer Battalion based in Olomouc was created on 15 October 2008 and is subordinated to the 15th Engineer Brigade, Joint Forces Command.

The 15th century Venetian navigator Alvise Cadamosto made note of what was probably the Southern Cross on exiting the Gambia River in 1455, calling it the carro dell ' ostro (" southern chariot ").

New characters were introduced, such as Terry Duckworth ( Nigel Pivaro ), Curly Watts ( Kevin Kennedy ), Martin Platt ( Sean Wilson ), Reg Holdsworth ( Ken Morley ) and the McDonald family ; one of whom, Simon Gregson, started on the show as Steve McDonald a week after his 15th birthday, and has been in the programme ever since.

The 15th census based on improved geographical information systems is planned for 2010.

Rediscovered in the 15th century, Vitruvius was instantly hailed as the authority on classical orders and on architecture in general.