The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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Thirteenth Amendment: This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.
Fourteenth Amendment: This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”
Voting Rights Act of 1965: A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.