Historical Illustration: The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America [...]
Title
Historical Illustration: The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America [...]
Date
c. 1870
Type
Historical Illustration
Description
The Library of Congress features an 1870 historical illustration that depicts the celebration of the enactment of the 15th Amendment--which prohibits the denial of suffrage to any United States citizens based off of race--in Baltimore, Maryland. The illustration features groups of African American individuals marching down a street on foot and on horseback, surrounded by a sea of onlookers, and the illustration is framed with images describing the history of African Americans in the United States as well as prominent historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
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Publisher
The Library of Congress
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Citation
“Historical Illustration: The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America [...],” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 7, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/1036.