The fifteenth amendment states...
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
What it means to me...
This amendment prohibited the restriction of voting rights "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Basically, African Americans could now have the right to vote.
The following video relates to the 15th amendment...
This video illustrates the 15th amendment after reconstruction. It shows the steps that African Americans had to take in order to be able to vote, and how they now everyone has the right to vote no matter the color of their skin. However, everyone was not equal since women still could not vote.
The following cartoon relates the the 15th amendment...
The cartoon shows how black suffrage has finally ended and that the colored line separating blacks from whites is no longer a boundary.
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