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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The reason that the 15th Amendment, passed in 1870, was partially unsuccessful was mostly Southern states failed to enforce it.

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