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Fifteenth Amendment - Right of Citizens to Vote

Fifteenth Amendment (1870)

P.L. 40-14; 15 Stat. 346
guaranteed the right to vote for all citizens regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
Forbade any state to deprive a citizen of his vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Approved by the 40th Congress (1867–1869) as S.J. Res. 8; ratified by the states on February 3, 1870.

Fifteenth Amendment Right of Citizens to Vote
Constitution Annotated: "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–"

Voting Rights & Election Law (HeinOnline)
Hein: "This collection is devoted to the electoral process: how elections are conducted, the strategy and controversies of political campaigns, how votes are counted, and who is allowed to vote.

User help page at https://libguides.heinonline.org/voting-rights-and-election-law

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