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Freedmen’s conventions drew national attention to the injustices of Black Codes. The conventions also petitioned Congress for voting rights and recognition as equal citizens under the law.

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Eleventh National Woman’s Rights Convention, May 10, 1866

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Eleventh National Woman’s Rights Convention, May 10, 1866

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At the convention, Harper and other activists formed the American Equal Rights Association, which vowed to “secure Equal Rights to all American citizens, especially the Right of Suffrage, irrespective of race, color, or sex.”

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15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1870

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15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1870

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This amendment prohibits anyone to be able to deny voting privileges from any U.S Citizen

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African American women were among the earliest and strongest advocates for women’s right to vote. They included activist and journalist Mary Ann Shadd Cary, who in 1871 led a delegation of 60 women, black and white, to attempt to register to vote in Washington, D.C. Cary later testified before the House Judiciary Committee to protest the denial of her right to vote, declaring that the “crowning glory of American citizenship is that it may be shared equally by people of every nationality, complexion and sex.”

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The natives won the right to vote state by state in every state but it took a couple decades. The "White Man" just didn't want the original settlers on the "American" soil and wanted them to go bye bye.