A little bit of background on the newest MAGA swag to hit the Trump Store, topping off a Constitutional threat.

A reasonable reform proposal and a question for the next column – The Constitution does not mention the word “Education,” ...

This equality was not ratified until the addition of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution in 1868 and 1870, respectively. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to ...

Enter civil rights laws. Throughout American history, civil rights legislation was enacted to correct actual legal injustices — such as ensuring former slaves had the same rights as free citizens ...

(WMBD) — April 4 is David Strother Day, commemorating the first African-American man to vote in Illinois after the passing of the 15th amendment. On Friday evening ... On April 4, 1870 he voted in El ...

Answer: Amazing and true: On April 4, 1870, a day after the passage of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, a barber in El Paso was escorted to the polls and David A. Strother ...

The Methodist Church for colored people corner of West Tenth and Bleecker streets, was crowded last evening by colored and white citizens to celebrate the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.

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The writer explores the historical journey of racial politics in America, tracing the path from the oppression of Black slaves to the transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, and explore its lasting ...

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File Photo by Library of Congress/UPI In 1870, the 15th Amendment, granting African American men the right to vote, was adopted into the U.S. Constitution. In 1923, the Cunard liner Laconia ...