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Voting has been a state issue since the Founding. Some states allowed free Blacks to vote early in US history, most did not. The post-Civil War amendments outlawed state and fed rules forbidding voting by race.

The US Constitution granted African-American men the right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. African-American women were not allowed to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment (women's suffrage) was ratified in 1920.
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