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Saturday, June 5, 2010

15th Amendment to the Constitution

It was in 1870 that the 15th Amendment granted African American MEN the rights of citizens to vote. However with poll taxes, literacy tests and in other ways most were prevented from registering to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Do you know when women won the right to vote? I say won because it was a long fight. Watch tomorrow to learn how long it took.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html

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