February 26th

On this day,

 In 1869, The United States Congress passed The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibited states and the federal government from denying a citizen the rights to vote.  It, however, only applied to males.  It was duly ratified on March 30, 1870.

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