With many Black citizens disenfranchised from voting when the Civil Rights Movement began in the 1950s, progress was slow.

Though Black men had been granted the right to vote with the 15th Amendment in 1870, and Black women with the passage of the ...

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

Following the Civil War, many Southern states administered ... Eric Foner, a Columbia University historian told NPR, "Because of the 15th Amendment, you can't pass laws saying blacks can't vote ...