the 15th Amendment

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Constitution
gptkbp:bfsLayer 3
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Frederick_Douglass
gptkb:Andrew_Johnson
gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkb:Daniel_Sickles
gptkbp:allows denial of voting rights based on race
gptkbp:applies_to gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:enacted_by gptkb:the_United_States_Congress
February 3, 1870
gptkbp:enforces the Voting Rights Act of 1965
federal oversight of elections
gptkbp:goal ensure equal voting rights
gptkbp:historical_context post-Civil War America
gptkbp:historical_significance expansion of suffrage
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label the 15th Amendment
gptkbp:impact American democracy
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:political_movement
gptkbp:is_countered_by various state laws restricting voting rights
gptkbp:is_opposed_by gptkb:political_movement
gptkbp:is_supported_by African American activists
gptkbp:legacy civil rights advancements
gptkbp:legal_issue Supreme Court rulings
voter suppression laws
gptkbp:legislation gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act
gptkbp:part_of gptkb:the_Reconstruction_Amendments
gptkbp:related_to the 14th Amendment