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Feb 3, 2020 · The lasting power of the 15th Amendment, which awarded African Americans the right to vote, resonates today in courtrooms across America.
- National Correspondent
In Lincoln’s final speech on April 11, 1865, he said that Black people should be allowed to vote — at least those who served in the military and are literate.
Before Congress had granted suffrage to blacks in the territories by passing the Territorial Suffrage Act on January 10, 1867 (Source: Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 2nd Session, pp. 381-82), blacks were granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia on January 8, 1867.
On Aug. 6, 1965, Johnson closed one chapter of America’s history of denying black Americans the right to vote.
A timeline of new and old efforts to limit the political power of Black Americans and other voters of color. Analysis by Brandon Tensley, CNN. “We are witnessing right now a massive and ...
In 1855, only five states—Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont—allowed African Americans to vote without significant restrictions. In 1826, only sixteen black New Yorkers were qualified to vote.
By the mid-nineteenth century, the suppression of the right to vote based on one’s racial/ethnic identity intensified, and only a few northern states allowed African American men to vote.
