The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870)extended the right to vote to African Americans, but Congress had to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to get defiant southern states to allow blacks to vote.

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The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, granted African American men the right to vote, but many Southern states enacted laws to circumvent this, necessitating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to enforce voting rights.