> "While constitutionally given the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 and 19th Amendment in 1920, the reality of the country was such that most A

> "While constitutionally given the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 and 19th Amendment in 1920, the reality of the country was such that most African Americans and some poor whites could not vote until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage#cite_note-VRA1965-91 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage#cite_note-V...