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Civil Rights in America: Racial Voting Rights

Aug 25, 2003 · adoption followed nearly a century of systematic resistance by certain states to the Fifteenth Amendment guarantee of the right to vote regardless of race or color. ... African American essay begins in 1865 with the abolition of slavery and the quest for the ballot.

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