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Today is the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution. Since our founding in 1940 a core focus of ⁦@NAACP_LDF⁩’s work has been devoted to challenging voter suppression schemes created to limit or deny the African American vote.
@NAACP_LDF Historian Eric Foner has explained that opponents of ratification saw the 15th Amend as "revolutionary" & "the 'crowning' act of a Radical conspiracy to promote black equality & transform America from a confederation of states into a centralized nation." Reconstruction 1863-1877
@NAACP_LDF Southern states used poll taxes, literacy tests, the grandfather clause and other measures - including violence and lynching - for nearly 100 years after ratification to frustrate the goal of the 15th Amendment.
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