Timeline Thursday 3 February 1870

Events on Thursday 3 February 1870 1

• 1870 Fifteenth Amendment Ratified US Constitution bars racial discrimination in voting The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on 3 February 1870, prohibiting federal and state governments from denying citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the three Reconstruction amendments following the Civil War. Enforcement would remain contested for nearly a century.