Timeline Friday 26 February 1869

Events on Friday 26 February 1869 1

• 1869 Congress passes the Fifteenth Amendment Amendment barring race-based voting restrictions sent to states The US Congress approved the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting federal and state governments from denying citizens the vote based on race or previous condition of servitude. It was sent to the states for ratification, completed the following year. The amendment followed the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments as part of Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation.