because if they secured their rights in an amendment, then they can essentially "use" or "gain" more votes for the officials they wanted because the Republicans (North) had secured their rights which ultimately made the African Americans happy/ falter away from the Southerns who had used them as slaves.
Amendment 24 of the U.S. Constitution provided more opportunity for African - Americans to vote by barring Poll Taxes, a tax that must be paid by anyone wishing to cast a vote.
Shuffle Along, was the first musical written, produced, and performed, by African Americans, made it's debut on Broadway in 1921.
The 15th Amendment (1870) to the United States Constitution granted the right to suffrage (voting) to all males. Specifically, the use of color or being a prior slave could no longer legally be used to prevent the right to vote for African-American males.
African American Mary McLeod Bethune. There is even a monument in Washington D.C, to honor the contributions she made toward education.
14th Amendment and the 15th amendment.
To the United States Bill of Rights? It gave African-Americans the right to vote. The 13th ended slavery, the 14th made them citizens.
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The 14th amendment gave rights to former slaves.
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to allow African Americans the write to vote and help clear up any racial tension
The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution had several profound effects on the lives of African Americans. First off, it overruled a prior ruling that African Americans could not be US citizens. Secondly, it prohibited state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, and property without due process of law. Thirdly and most importantly, it guaranteed all citizens equal protection under the law, a clause that served as an important basis for the decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that overturned segregation.
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
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13TH amendmentThe 13th amendment FREED the slaves, the 14th amendment made former slaves US Citizens. So the correct answer would have to be 14th amendment (passed in 1866, ratified in 1868)
Laws targeting poor African American made it difficult for them to vote.