The D C Act of 1867 Grants Voting Rights to African Americans

The bill's passage occurred about two months before the reconstruction acts enfranchised black men the south, and three years before the fifteenth amendment granted voting rights to all men. The exceptions were male residents under the age of 21, as well as any one on welfare,. Those who had been convicted of a major crime and those who had voluntarily sheltered confederate soldiers during the civil war.