The Benefit of the Fifteenth Amendment

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The Benefit of the Fifteenth Amendment

As this image, titled "The Benefit of the Fifteenth Amendment" shows, one of the advantages of African American suffrage was stronger churches and schools as portrayed in the bottom two center panels. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Freetown Church

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1347 commemorates Freetown Church, which is located near Gamaliel, Kentucky, in Monroe County. The church was built in the late 1840s by three former slaves who had been freed by their owner, William Howard. Howard had migrated…