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Which court case or legal action brought the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments back to life?

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Guinn v. the United States in 1915. The case was fought because an amendment to the Constitution stated that a person in order to vote had to satisfy a literacy test. If they didn't then they could still vote if their grandfather had been a voter. This meant that African Americans, if illiterate could not vote due to their grandfathers not having the right to. 
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