The 15th Amendment

The 15th Amendment: Ulysses S. Grant’s Vision for a Post-Civil War America.

To learn more, explore these links:

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/president-grant-pen-vision-civil-war-america-180965218/

• https://guides.loc.gov/15th-amendment

• http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/african-americans-and-the-15th-amendment

Grand Challenge: Understanding the American Experience

ERC Grand Challenges: For project design, for inquiry, for activism

Hand colored lithograph print commemorating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment containing a large central scene of the celebratory parade held in Baltimore in May surrounded by several bust portraits and vignettes. Source: The Library Company of Philadelphia