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March 31, 1870 · Voting Rights, Citizenship & Reconstruction

He Cast the Amendment’s First Ballot

Thomas Mundy Peterson cast the first ballot by a Black American under the newly certified Fifteenth Amendment.

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Then

New Jersey restricted Black voting even as constitutional change redefined national citizenship.

Now

Peterson’s local ballot became a national milestone in Reconstruction-era voting rights.

Next

A constitutional promise becomes real only when people can exercise and defend it.

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