FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT Effect of the Fifteenth Amendment

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FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. Effect of the Fifteenth Amendment. Silver print cabinet card photograph, 5-3/8 x 3-5/8 inches, on a larger 6-3/8 x 4-1/8 inch mount; one corner the mount chipped, others rounded; nothing on the verso. Np, circa 1870's

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A photograph of what appears to be a pencil drawing, the caption on the card reads: 'Indignant Mother: 'Come in out dat Mud right straight! Fust ting you'll know you'll be took for Irish Chil'en. The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on 3 February, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. The same year, Hiram Rhoades Revels became the first African member of Congress.