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.
The Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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A House resolution to form the Joint Committee of Fifteen is received by the Senate
Resolved, That a committee consisting of two members be appointed, to join such committee as may be appointed by the House of Representatives, to wait on the President of the United States and inform him that a quorum of each House has assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make.