Which amendment prohibits denial of the right to vote based on race?

• A. 13th Amendment.
• B. 15th Amendment.
• C. 19th Amendment.
• D. 26th Amendment.

Answer: (B)

Focusing on protecting voting rights from being denied because of race, this is established by the Fifteenth Amendment. Ratified in 1870 after the Civil War, it says that the right to vote cannot be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This was designed to secure African American men’s right to vote in the wake of slavery and Civil War tensions, though actual voting barriers persisted and were later addressed by additional civil rights legislation.

The other amendments mentioned don’t target race in voting: the one about ending slavery, the one about granting women the vote, and the one about lowering the voting age, all address different protections or changes in who can vote.