15th Amendment facts
While investigating facts about 15th Amendment, I found out little known, but curios details like:
One of the reasons tipping spread in the U.S. was because restaurant owners refused to pay black Americans after the 15th amendment.
Banning felons from voting started in the South in the 1870s after the 15th amendment gave black people the right to vote.
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Tennessee ratified the 15th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted Black Males the right to vote, in 1997, 127 years late
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Tennese became the last state to officially radify the 15th amendment, which granted the right to vote to all men, in 1997.
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On 1957, Georgia asked the Congress to repeal the 14th and 15th Amendments
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Susan B Anthony was against the 15th Amendment.
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In the USA Women's suffrage came in 1920, 50 years after the 15th amendment (1870) stated 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."
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Despite the 15th Amendment; after the Plessy v. Ferguson Ruling (1896), registered black voters in Louisiana went from 130,334 (1896) to only 1,342 in 1904
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The 15th Amendment, which prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude", wasn't ratified by Tennessee until 1997.
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Not one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted for the 15th amendment that granted explicit voting rights to black Americans.
