The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution are collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments. Put forth in 1869, on the surface, it was presented as protecting the voting rights of eligible voters. Of course, this now included recently freed Black men. Underneath that, the controlling Republican party used the Fifteenth Amendment as […]

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