This image depicts, at center, a parade celebrating the passage of the 15th Amendment surrounded by portraits and vignettes of African Americans exercising their newly won liberties—land ownership, education, political involvement, religious freedom, employment, and military participation.

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Using Broadside Analysis, the graphic organizer created by the New York State Archives, have students predict what they think the broadside is saying and then go through and analyze each part of the image using the prompts to help answer the question, “What did the artist think the ratification of the 15th Amendment would provide for African Americans?”