Commemorative print of the Fifteenth Amendment

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The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of the African race in America and its final accomplishment, and celebration' One of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment, and showing the parade celebrating it which was held in Baltimore on May 19 the same year. The amendment declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude." Here the parade winds down Monument Street from Baltimore's Washington Monument.

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Photo credit: © World History Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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