Which amendment addresses issues related to race and voting?

The Fifteenth Amendment is specifically designed to address issues of race and voting rights in the United States. Ratified in 1870, this amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." This was a crucial development in the post-Civil War era, as it aimed to secure voting rights for African American men, who had previously been disenfranchised.

In contrast, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, the Seventeenth Amendment pertains to the direct election of U.S. Senators, and the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote. While all these amendments are important milestones in the broader struggle for civil rights, it is the Fifteenth Amendment that directly addresses the relationship between race and voting.