What was important about the fifteenth amendment?

Answer 1

15th Amendment (1870)

It is significant because it gave blacks, both former slaves and free blacks the right to vote. The Civil War was now over, the slaves had been freed, but southern states had circumvented the right to vote. This was done through what is called grandfather clauses, literacy test and poll taxes. This was a way to end this.

Even w/ the 15th amendment added, African Americans still had problems voting in the south. This was the impetus to the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 2

The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees the right to vote regardless of race. It gave African American men a voice in government and is the third of the three great "Reconstruction Amendments" which followed the American Civil War between 1865 and 1870.

The Fourteenth Amendment is the civil rights, Immigration, and personal liberties amendment. The Thirteenth Amendment forever outlaws slavery in the United States. All three amendments were largely ignored for a century, principally in most of the former slave holding states which enacted what were called "Jim Crow" laws ("Separate But Equal" statutes). It took a vigorous, determined and courageous action by the Civil Rights Movement to bring about the National Voting Rights Act of 1965 and finally fully implement the Fifteenth Amendment.