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15th Amendment
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Not by race, not by color
Nor the chains I once was under
Can you keep my suffrage out of sight
Fifteen, fifteen
No longer a distant dream, well you
Were a door and I stepped inside
I won’t be cast aside
In that voting line ‘cause
You got scared of all the color in my skin
I won’t be pushed aside
In that voting line cause
You got scared of all the power I’d rein in
Though short-lived and undermined
600 black men find a seat at the table
Holdin’ our chins to the light
‘Till the terror dressed in white
‘Till Jim Crow and all its might
'Till the sweepin’ reach of America in fright
I won’t be cast aside
In that voting line ‘cause
You got scared of all the color in my skin
I won’t be pushed aside
In that voting line cause
You got scared of all the power I’d rein in
I am a freeman
Black American
I am a freeman
I got my vote in hand
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Aisha Burns is a Texas-born violinist and singer-songwriter living in Western Massachusetts.
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