Reply #3: yes, African Americans

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The 14th (citizenship and equal protection) and 15th (voting rights) amendments, passed in the late 1860s, were enforced for only a brief period. When Northern troops withdrew from the South and ended Reconstruction in the 1870s, they allowed Southern states to strip African Americans of voting rights and equal protection. The Supreme Court then codified that removal of rights under Plessy v Ferguson (1896). Only with the voting rights act of 1965 were those rights legally restored.