Which amendment ensures equal voting rights regardless of race?

Which amendment ensures equal voting rights regardless of race?

• A. 12th Amendment
• B. 13th Amendment
• C. 15th Amendment
• D. 19th Amendment

Answer: (C)

Equal access to the ballot regardless of race is protected by the amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbids denying or abridging the right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude. This amendment establishes that race cannot be a basis to exclude someone from voting, making it the key constitutional guarantee for racial voting rights. It was enacted to ensure citizenship and political participation for newly freed African Americans. In practice, enforcement took many decades and required subsequent civil rights laws, but the text itself blocks racial discrimination in voting. The other amendments touch different topics: one covers how presidents are elected, another abolishes slavery, and another secures voting rights on the basis of sex, not race.