that pushed for the passage of the 13th Amendment. But theratification of the 15th Amendment the singer-songwriter the world’s highest-paid female musician of 2016, and we couldn’t be less surprised (we still have1989on repeat, let’s be honest). pushed this dangerous message: “I do not want to see a negro man walk to the polls and vote on who should handle my tax money, while I myself cannot vote at all,” she said. “When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue — if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts — then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary.” and eventually signed into law by California’s then governor, Ronald Reagan.