...Fifteenth Amendment . . . »nd for other purposes." The Fifteenth Amendment commands that the right to •vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition •of servitude. Both the intent and purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights...

...point at which we now find ourselves. The 15th amendment, adopted in 1870, provides that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude and gives Congress the power to enforce this right by appropriate legislation....

...point at which we now find ourselves. The 15th amendment, adopted in 1870, provides that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude and gives Congress the power to enforce this right by appropriate legislation....

...protection of the law, and privileges and immunities (US Const, amend XIV): and (3) that voting rights shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude (US Const, amend. XV). The plain reading of these amendments places limitations...

...has been utilized to protect the right to vote, the fifteenth amendment, declaring that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," was originally intended to serve as the real workhorse of Negro suffrage."...

...Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1 870, declared that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged ... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." The potential impact of this amendment is readily apparent when one recalls...

...fifteenth amendment makes this conclusion abundantly clear: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged ... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." 169 The fourteenth amendment is not so plain. Until the Warren years, however,...

...Mississippi toward the ideal expressed in the Fifteenth Amendment that "the right of citizens ... to vote shall not be denied or abridged ... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Black Representation on Council in 1989 by Election Plan. Mississippi Cities...

...Section 10 of the proposed Declaration of Rights stated: "[t]he right of citizens of this State to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." 55 This provision was stricken from the Declaration of Rights upon the motion...

...in such State." The Fifteenth Amendment affirms that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged . . . on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." 24. Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Gerrit Smith, January 1, 1866 Gerrit Smith Collection,...