On March 31, 1870, Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey became the first African American man to vote in an election under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  He cast his ballot to revise the town’s existing charter. The side he voted for won in a landslide (230-63) and he was elected to the committee to […]

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