国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 2月3日 22時15分

On this day in 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment declared that citizens' right to vote would not be "denied or abridged. . .on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." This colorful lithograph was created to celebrate its passage—swipe right to see some its details.
The lithograph's central panel depicts a parade held in Baltimore on May 19, 1870, one of the largest celebrations honoring the amendment’s passage (2). The parade lasted more than 5 hours, was over a mile in length, and had more than 20,000 spectators. Note the Baltimore Washington Monument in the background, the troop of Zouave drummers, and the African American men wearing Masonic sashes. The three men depicted in the lithograph's top center panel are abolitionist leader and orator Frederick Douglass, Mississippi Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, and Martin Robison Delany—author and 1st African American major in US Army (3). Other panels on the lithograph depict the expected benefits of the 15th Amendment, such as an African American man voting and representing his constituents in public office (4), a formerly enslaved person tilling their own field (5), and a group of children going to school (6). African Americans celebrated the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment as another step toward equality, but the celebration was short-lived. Within ten years, state governments began to use intimidation, violence, and restrictive voter qualifications to keep African Americans from the polls. Almost a century would pass before African American citizens could reliably exercise their right to vote under the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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