Anthony objected to the new law. They wanted women to be included with black men. Others—like Lucy Stone—supported the amendment as it was.
Stone believed that women would win the vote soon. The two sides established two rival national organizations that aimed to win women the vote. The 14th and 15th Amendments. You Might Also Like. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws…. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude…. Civil War and Reconstruction Constitution and Government , Reconstruction.
Stone devoted much of his second inaugural speech to Reconstruction and the expansion of civil rights for African Americans.
As he entered his second term as Iowa governor, the U. National Convention of the Colored Men of America. Memorial of the Executive Committee. Washington, DC, George T. James C. The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th New York: Thomas Kelly, African American and white civil rights activists held massive celebrations throughout the country on the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Supporters believed that the power of the ballot box would allow African Americans to repeal discriminatory laws and to elect officials who would protect them from state and extralegal violence.
Celebration in Honor of the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. Courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Fifteenth Amendment celebration in Philadelphia lasted for more than five hours. Festivities included marching bands, speeches, and a parade.
Included in the procession was a wagon that held a printing press which reproduced copies of the amendment for distribution. Constitution of the Impartial Suffrage League. Boston, Notably absent was abolitionist and Bostonian William Lloyd Garrison, whose championing of black civil rights ended with the abolition of slavery.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Address in Favor of Universal Suffrage. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton initially supported voting rights for black men, as she expressed in this address.
However, Stanton objected to giving uneducated former slaves the vote before white women. New York,
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