Fifteenth Amendment To The U.S. Constitution Parade

An engraving depicting a parade staged by Black inhabitants of New York to celebrate the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments), prohibiting the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote 'on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude', in New York City, New York, 8th April 1870. Published in the 10th April 1870 edition of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. (Photo by Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)