15th Amendment to the US Constitution
15th Amendment was designed to close the last loophole in the establishment of civil rights for newly-freed black slaves. It was ratified on February 3, 1870. 15th Amendment to the establishment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by announce that the “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be refuse or short by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
This amendment forbid the states and the northern government from utilize a citizen’s race (this applies to all races), color or previous condition as a slave as a voting qualification.
The North Carolina Supreme Court go forward this right of free men of color to vote; in response, amendments to the North Carolina Constitution accept the right in 1835. Granting free men of color the right to vote could be seen as devote them the rights of citizens, an argument explicitly made by Justice Curtis’s dissent in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
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