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  • . African-Americans, based on the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1870, could vote. Phil Reader, historian of African-Americans of Santa Cruz County, wrote that: The 1870 Census enumerated 53 African Americans living in Santa Cruz