On March 30, The 15th Amendment was ratified and gave blacks the right to vote. 

In the final years of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that followed, Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions who had been enslaved. 

After surviving a difficult ratification fight, the amendment was certified as duly ratified and part of the Constitution. 

Women would not receive that right until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

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