Celebrating Rights and 
Responsibilities
Baltimore & the Fifteenth Amendment, May 19, 1870
An Interactive Historical Investigation by David Troy © 1996
Fraternity: a sense that free blacks could now join fraternal organizations as they chose was part of the enfranchisement that suffrage gave them. Many of the groups participating in the parade were black civic organizations of one kind or another. The banner in the middle is that of the Masonic Temple.

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