Joint Resolution Proposing the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Scope and content: This item consists of the resolution proposing the Fifteenth Amendment, which was ratified February 3, 1870, and grants citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. General notes: Records pertaining to the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment are available on National Archives Microfilm Publication M1518, Ratified Amendments XI-XXVII to the United States Constitution, Roll 4.

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