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The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited federal or state government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870. It was one of the "Reconstruction Amendments." African Americans were tricked out of the vote though. Literacy laws were passed, and a poll tax enforced, which many former slaves did not have the money or education to pass or pay. Therefore, they still could not vote. The Voting Rights Act of Aug. 6, 1965 supported the Fifteen Amendment and made the promise a reality.

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