Illustration depicting the Fifteenth Amendment by an unknown artist after James Carter Beard 1837 – 1913. Lithographer Thomas Ulysses Simpson Grant;Martin Robison Delany;Frederick Douglass;Hiram Rhoades;Schuyler Colfax John;Abraham Lincoln. This print features a festive parade held in Baltimore, May 1870, to celebrate the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution (1870), which granted the right to vote to male citizens regardless of “race, colour, or previous servitude” An optimised version of an illustration in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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Size: 3861px × 2979px
Location: Washington DC
Photo credit: © World Illustrated / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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