The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (popularly known as the Constitution Annotated) contains legal analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution, based primarily on Supreme Court case law. This regularly updated resource is especially useful when researching the constitutional implications of a specific issue or topic. It includes a chapter on the 15th Amendment.

This exhibition showcases the African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displays more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings. Contains a section on Reconstruction that includes a picture from Harper's Weekly entitled "The First Vote."

American Treasures a lithograph of a parade in Baltimore, Maryland, celebrating the 15th Amendment on May 19, 1870.

This exhibition, which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, explores the events that shaped the civil rights movement, as well as the far-reaching impact the act had on a changing society.

Print shows African American men, in dress indicative of their professions, in a queue waiting their turn to vote. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 11, no. 568 (1867 November 16).

Print showing President Ulysses S. Grant signing the 15th amendment. Published by C. Rogan, 1871.

Print shows a parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment. Published & Printed by Thomas Kelly, 1870.

Another of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment, on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment and showing the grand May 19 celebratory parade in Baltimore. Published by Thomas Kelly, 1871.

Another of several large prints commemorating the celebration in Baltimore of the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment. Lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., 1870.

A slightly altered version of another print by the same title also issued by Metcalf and Clark commemorating the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment and its celebration in Baltimore. Published by Metcalf & Clark, 1870.

Explore the presidential election process, the right to vote, and political campaigns through Library of Congress primary sources. The Right to Vote section contains a page on voting rights for African Americans.

The collection of poll taxes in national elections was prohibited by the January 23, 1964, ratification of the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. Adopted by many Southern states in the last decades of the nineteenth century, the poll tax circumvented the Fifteenth Amendment, disenfranchising many African Americans and poor whites.

The Selma-to-Montgomery March for African American voting rights began on March 7, 1965. On the outskirts of Selma the marchers, in plain sight of photographers and journalists, were brutally assaulted by heavily armed state troopers and deputies.