The Fifteenth Amendment

John Brown, 9 May 1800 - 2 Dec 1859 Unknown Hiram Rhoades Revels, 27 Sep 1827 - 16 Jan 1901 James Carter Beard Schuyler Colfax, 23 Mar 1823 - 13 Jan 1885 Frederick Douglass, Feb 1818 - 20 Feb 1895 Thomas Kelly Ulysses Simpson Grant, 27 Apr 1822 - 23 Jul 1885 Martin Robison Delany, 6 May 1812 - 25 Jan 1885

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About

This print features a festive parade held in Baltimore in May 1870 to celebrate the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1870), which granted the right to vote to male citizens, regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Following the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery (1865), and the Fourteenth to guarantee citizenship to all persons born in the United States (1868), the Fifteenth held special significance: For the first time in U.S. history, it empowered a minority class.