Picture No | 11989530 |
Date | November 1872 |
Description | African Americans voting by ballot in the United States 1872 |
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"The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments, race, color, or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. Black man at the ballot-box of the presidential election of November 1872.
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Source | Engraving by H. Johnson in 'The Graphic', 23 November 1872 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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