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What is the name of the amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote?
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The amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote is the Fifteenth Amendment. The grandfather clause, which allowed voters to be registered automatically if their grandfather had voted, effectively exempted illiterate whites, but not blacks, from the literacy test. Blacks received the right to vote in 1870 under the Fifteenth Amendment, so almost no African Americans at this time had voting grandfathers because they were among the first generations of African American voters.