Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:adoptedBy February 3, 1870
gptkbp:appliesTo gptkb:citizens_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:category gptkb:Reconstruction_Amendments
gptkbp:enforcedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:enforcementIssues discriminatory practices such as poll taxes and literacy tests
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
gptkbp:influencedBy Abolition of slavery in the United States
gptkbp:legalCitation gptkb:U.S._Const._amend._XV
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:prohibits denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
gptkbp:proposedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
February 26, 1869
gptkbp:ratifiedBy gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
gptkbp:section 2
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.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
gptkbp:significance granted African American men the right to vote
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4