Amenities & Services. Guests of The Hay-Adams will always feel well cared-for. Every guestroom and suite in our DC luxury hotel is stocked with amenities to ensure that your stay in downtown Washington, D.C., is completely comfortable. We offer 24-hour in-room dining, and a fully staffed Les Clefs D'Or Concierge service.
In retrospect, it can be seen that the 15th amendment was in reality only the beginning of a struggle for equality that would continue for more than a century before African Americans could begin to participate fully in American public and civic life.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's  race, color, or previous condition of servitude..n April and December 1869, Congress passed Reconstruction bills mandating that Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia ratify the amendment as a precondition to regaining congressional representation; all four states did so.