15th amendment

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Five Myths About Reconstruction

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Teaching materials and guides on the 15th Amendment's significance in 2020 — its 150th anniversary and an election year.

It took years for King to understand nonviolence as an effective strategy for political change. Yet his embrace of that idea allowed him to shape history.

Women's fight for equality is nothing new: A hundred years ago, brave women gathered to march and demand their right to vote and, unsurprisingly, Bay Area ladies were on the front lines. Take a look at the women's suffrage movement in San Francisco during the 1800s and early 1900s.

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The 24th amendment was ratified in January of 1964, ending poll taxes. Although the passage of the 15th amendment expanded those who could vote, poll taxes had limited the number of individuals who could afford to vote.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.