the 15 admendment
I believe it was the militia act. It also allowed them to use African American soldiers.
That African Americans be accepted into the Union military Allowed African-Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers
There were close to 1 million African American soldiers that fought with the allied troops during World War II. Prior to 1941 African Americans were deemed unfit for war and were not allowed to fight on the front lines.
There weren't 6 African scientists on the Manhattan project. They were all European or American. It was rare indeed for a black man to be allowed an education in those days. It is doubtful that any got so far as to achieve a PhD in physics or chemistry. It is certain that none were part of project Manhattan. ------------- The above comment is not true - African-American scientist J. Ernest Wilkins got a PhD in 1942 and from 1944 worked on the Manhattan Project in the University of Chicago's Met Lab.
African Americans were allowed to fight with the rest of the Armed Forces.
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the denial of voting rights on the basis of color or national origin. Along with the 14th Amendment (granted citizenship, prohibited slavery), it allowed African-American males to vote.
The 15th amendment staes that you can't deinied right to vote based on race or previous servitude
the 14th admendment changed the American federal system. It went from the previous stae centered federal system to a now over whelming national controlled federal sytem. This admendment allowed the national government to step into a dictate what was once state's domain
The Southern states kept African Americans from gaining political power by denying them an education. They also passed laws to keep them down. They were not allowed to own property and most of them could not read or write.
African American were not allowed to vote.
Yes, there are African-American members of Masonic Lodges.
African American slaves enjoyed a period when they were allowed to vote. :-)
in African American history
White and African American women gained the right to vote.
thurgood marshall
African American children were not allowed to attend white schools until the Brown v Kansas schools decision that the Supreme Court ruled that African American children be allowed to attend white schools.
In "To Kill a Mockingbird," African Americans are not allowed to serve on juries in Alabama during that time period. The exclusion of African Americans from juries was a common practice in many Southern states at that time.