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On this day in history, Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of citizens of ...

The extraordinary drama of framing and adopting the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment involved an extraordinarily diverse group of Americans; black and white, men and women, city and country, north ...

Many white abolitionists of the time believed that ratification meant that the battle against slavery was won. White-led abolitionist societies, such as William Lloyd Garrison’s irrepressible ...