A man walks into City Hall to cast his vote in a small-town election. Nothing glamorous — no presidential race, no national headlines. But this one simple act would echo through American history.
That man was Thomas Mundy Peterson, and that ballot made him the first African American in the United States to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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