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 House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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The House is called to order and organizes itself; a resolution is proposed creating a Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction.
Resolved, That the rules of the House of Representatives of the Thirty-Eighth Congress shall be the rules of the House of Representatives until otherwise ordered.
Resolved further, That a committee of five, to consist of the Speaker and four members to be named by him, be appointed, to whom shall be referred the rules of the House, who shall be authorized to report at any time such amendments on the revision of the same that they may think proper.