Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Bibliography

Articles

• Crum, Travis. “The Superfluous Fifteenth Amendment?” Northwestern University Law Review 114 (2020).

Books

• Amar, Akhil R. America's Constitution: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2005.
• Bernstein, R. B. “Fifteenth Amendment.” In Constitutional Amendments: 1789 to the Present, ed. Kris E. Palmer. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.
• Cogan, Neil H. The Complete Reconstruction Amendments and Statutes. 6 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
• Foner, Eric. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. New York: Norton, 2019.
• Gillette, William. The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965.
• Grimes, Alan P. Democracy and the Amendments to the Constitution. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1978.
• Holloway, Vanessa A. In Search of Federal Enforcement: The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870–1965. Lanham, MD: University Press of American, 2015.
• Katz, Ellen D. “Enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment.” In The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution, ed. Mark Tushnet, Mark A. Graber, and Sanford Levinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Keyssar, Alexander. The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
• Kyvig, David E. Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776–1995. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
• Mathews, John M. Legislative and Judicial History of the Fifteenth Amendment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1909.
• McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
• Pendergast, Tom, Sara Pendergast, and John Sousanis. Constitutional Amendments: From Freedom of Speech to Flag Burning. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: UXL, 2001.
• Vile, John R. Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789–2002. 2nd ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003.