15th Amendment to the United States Constitution

Fortieth Congress of the United States of America;

At the third Session, 
Begun and held at the city of Washington, on Monday, the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

A Resolution 
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
(two-thirds of both Houses concurring) That the following article be proposed to the legislature of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely:

Article XV.

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Schuyler Colfax
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.

B. F. Wade
President of the Senate pro tempore.

Attest:
Edwd McPherson
Clerk of House of Representatives. 

Geo. C. Gorham
Secy of Senate U.S.