Which Amendment prohibits denying voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

• A. 19th Amendment
• B. 15th Amendment
• C. 23rd Amendment
• D. 24th Amendment

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is protecting the right to vote from racial discrimination. The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, states that 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. This makes it the specific constitutional protection against denying voting rights because of someone's race or their status as a former enslaved person. It was a key measure during Reconstruction to secure Black men’s suffrage after the Civil War.

Other options address different voting protections: the Nineteenth Amendment protects voting regardless of sex, the Twenty-Third Amendment grants residents of Washington, D.C. a say in presidential elections, and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment prohibits poll taxes in federal elections.