The Fifteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution allowed blacks to vote. But more importantly it meant blacks were people and were to be counted as citizens. There were some problems with the Fifteenth Amendment. It had left out some specifics dealing with the issue. Henry Adams said, “It is more remarkable for what it does not than for what it does contain.” What he was speaking of was what some states noticed about the …showed first 75 words of 378 total…

…showed last 75 words of 378 total…becoming closer to being a government by all the people, not just whites. Once the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, the shape of voting finally started to change. Finally, more and more blacks were voting. The Fifteenth Amendment was a huge and monumental amendment for all of the blacks. It is too bad they had to wait ninety-five years from the time the 15th was passed and to when things finally started to change.