On this day in history, Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of ...

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President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

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The Project XV Museum is hosting its annual gala and ribbon cutting to commemorate David Strother Day, the first ...

Tickets are still available for the Project XV Museum's annual fundraising gala, which will also serve as a ribbon cutting ...

On April 4, 1870, a day after the passage of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, a barber in El Paso was ...

An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation ...