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"The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment," commemorative print, 1870.
Credit: Library of Congress
This commemorative print marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, features busts of Martin Robinson Delany, Frederick Douglass, and Hiram R. Revels in a panel on the right. Delany's inclusion indicates the high esteem in which he was held by African Americans in the aftermath of the American Civil War.