Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Fifteenth Amendment was ...

An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation torn ...

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The 15th Amendment was written to stop governments from picking winners and losers based on skin color. In Louisiana, that is ...

At center, a depiction of a parade in celebration of the passing of the 15th Amendment. Framing it are portraits and vignettes illustrating the rights granted by the 15th Amendment: "We till our own ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — one of the most transformative laws in American history. Signed into law after the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, the Voting ...

Since the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, African Americans have been allowed to vote in elections for the past 60 years. After an oral argument in the Supreme Court that's disputing a ...

An opinion Wednesday by Chief Judge Thomas Kleeh (N.D. W. Va.) in Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, Inc. v. Pickens deals with a rule of the West Virginia state bar, which is organized as a ...

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The Fifteenth Amendment was the last of three Reconstruction Amendments. The first two were ratified in 1865 and 1868, respectively. The 15th Amendment was a milestone for civil rights. The amendment ...