In regards to the Fourteenth Amendment, the U.S. Congress still left the question of suffrage for Black people to the individual states, but both northern and southern states were very reluctant to grant it.

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The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” but it did not explicitly grant the right to vote to Black people. The question of suffrage was largely left to the states, and many, both in the North and the South, were indeed reluctant to extend voting rights to Black men until the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870, which prohibited denying a citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

In Regards to the Fourteenth Amendment, the U