<p>"The Fifteenth Amendment", an 1870 print celebrating the passage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" class="extiw" title="en:Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution</a> in February 1870, and the advancements that African-Americans had made as a result of the Civil War.
</p><p>Portraits in image:
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<ul><li>At the top corners, President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax.  (The Grant administration was much more satisfactory to African-Americans than the preceding Andrew Johnson administration.)</li>
<li>Smaller portraits (inset from the bottom corners) of the deceased white heroes of Black rights, Abraham Lincoln and John Brown.</li>
<li>At top center, African-American leaders <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Delany" class="extiw" title="en:Martin Delany">Martin Delany</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" class="extiw" title="en:Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Revels" class="extiw" title="en:Hiram Revels">Hiram Revels</a>.</li></ul><p>Vignettes in image (counterclockwise from top left):
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<dl><dt>1. "Reading Emancipation Proclamation"</dt>
<dd>Raggedly-dressed black man holding document signed "LINCOLN".</dd>
<dt>2. "Life, Liberty, and Independence"</dt>
<dd>Sword and olive wreath.</dd>
<dt>3. "We Unite the Bonds of Fellowship"</dt>
<dd>Three men dressed in sashes and aprons of black fraternal organizations, with corresponding banners.</dd>
<dt>4. "Our charter of Rights - The Holy Scriptures"</dt>
<dd>Book labelled "Holy Bible".</dd>
<dt>5. "Education will prove the Equality of the Races"</dt>
<dd>Schoolroom scene with Black woman schoolteacher.</dd>
<dt>6. "Liberty Protects the Marriage Altar"</dt>
<dd>Double wedding scene.</dd>
<dt>7. "Celebration of Fifteenth Amendment, May 19th, 1870"</dt>
<dd>(at center) Large vignette of black parade with drums and mounted men leading marchers on foot, viewed by a friendly white audience.</dd>
<dt>8. "The Ballot Box is open to us"</dt>
<dd>Black man casting secret ballot.</dd>
<dt>9. "Our representative Sits in the National Legislature"</dt>
<dd>Floor of Congress scene,  presumably depicting Sen. Hiram Revels sitting at his desk as other Blacks watch from the galleries.</dd>
<dt>10. "The Holy Ordinances of Religion are free"</dt>
<dd>Black church scene with Black preacher.</dd>
<dt>11. "Freedom unites the Family Circle"</dt>
<dd>Domestic scene.</dd>
<dt>12. "We will protect our Country as it defends our Rights"</dt>
<dd>Black military unit parading past cheering white spectators.</dd>
<dt>13. "We till our own Fields"</dt>
<dd>Two black men reaping grain.</dd>
<dt>14. "The Right of Citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or any State on account of Race, Color, or [previous] Condition of Servitude - 15th Amendment"</dt>
<dd>Quill pen(?) and scroll of Constitution of the United States.</dd></dl><hr><p>Bibliographic information found at LoC site:
</p><p>TITLE: The Fifteenth amendment
</p><p>CALL NUMBER: PGA - Kelly (T.)--Fifteenth amendment (A size) (A size) [P&amp;P]
</p><p>REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-2399 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-36272 (b&amp;w film copy neg.)
</p><p>SUMMARY: Parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment.
</p><p>MEDIUM: 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; 25.2 x
31.4 cm.
</p><p>CREATED/PUBLISHED: N.Y. : Published &amp; printed by Thomas Kelly, 17
Barclay St., c1870.
</p><p>CREATOR: Kelly, Thomas, fl. 1871-1874.
</p><p>NOTES: A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19th 1870" (no. 1870-4), with a key to the picture added in the lower margin.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1870-5.
</p><p>TOPICS:
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<ul><li>African Americans (portrayed), in the U.S. military.</li>
<li>Baltimore, Md.</li>
<li>Brown, John.</li>
<li>Colfax, Schuyler.</li>
<li>Constitutional amendments, fifteenth.</li>
<li>Delany, Martin Robinson.</li>
<li>Douglass, Frederick.</li>
<li>Emancipation Proclamation.</li>
<li>Grant, Ulysses S., presidency.</li>
<li>House of Representatives.</li>
<li>Masons.</li>
<li>Revels, Hiram.</li>
<li>Schools, for African Americans.</li>
<li>Voters and voting.</li></ul><p>SUBJECTS:
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<ul><li>African Americans--Civil rights--1870.</li>
<li>Liberty--1870.</li></ul><p>FORMAT:
Lithographs Hand-colored 1870.
</p><p>REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
</p><p>DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g02399
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CARD #: 93510386
Thomas Kelly
1870
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