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United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.

Senate Committee on the District of Columbia

The Committee on the District of Columbia of the Senate for the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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The list of documents under consideration by committee: Senate Committee on the District of Columbia at the end of its timeline.

S. 1

Creator event:

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866, Date: 07 Dec 1865, 00:00

S. 1

S. 1

Creator event:

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866, Date: 11 Jan 1866, 00:00

S. 1

H. R. 1

Creator event:

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866, Date: 20 Jan 1866, 00:00

H. R. 1

Last decision:

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866, Date: 20 Feb 1866, 00:00

[Editors' note: We have inferred the creation and referral of this document from its being reported in the House. The date of its creation and referral are unknown, but we have chosen to model them on the day before it is read in the House.]