{"id":971,"date":"2016-07-30T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=971"},"modified":"2020-07-30T20:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:48:49","slug":"fifteenth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/fifteenth-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteenth Amendment Print, 1870"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_972\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-972\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/15th-amendment-celebration-1870-1000x814.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Kelley, &quot;The Fifteenth Amendment,&quot; 1870, via Wikimedia. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/15th-amendment-celebration-1870-1000x814.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/15th-amendment-celebration-1870-250x204.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/15th-amendment-celebration-1870-768x625.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/15th-amendment-celebration-1870-500x407.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/15th-amendment-celebration-1870-624x508.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/15th-amendment-celebration-1870.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Kelley, &#8220;The Fifteenth Amendment,&#8221; 1870, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:15th-amendment-celebration-1870.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This 1870 print&nbsp;celebrated&nbsp;the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Here we see several of the themes most important to Black Americans during Reconstruction: The print celebrates the military achievements of Black veterans, the voting rights protected by the amendment, the right to marry and establish families, the creation and protection of Black churches, and the right to own and improve land. Unfortunately, many of these freedoms would be short-lived as the United States retreated from Reconstruction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1870 print&nbsp;celebrated&nbsp;the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Here we see several of the themes most important to Black Americans during Reconstruction: The print celebrates the military achievements of Black veterans, the voting rights protected by the amendment, the right to marry and establish families, the creation and protection of Black churches, and the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-971","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/971\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}