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Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 13: The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was intended to protect the rights of African Americans to vote. It worked, for a while.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 14: Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests
Southern states after the Civil War devised many methods for preventing African Americans from voting.