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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Credentials from those claiming seats in Tennessee are referred to the Joint Committee on Reconstruction
Resolved, That until otherwise ordered, Messrs. Nathaniel G. Taylor, Horace Maynard, William B. Stokes, Edmund Cooper, William B. Campbell, Samuel M. Arnell, Isaac R. Hawkins, and John W. Leftwich be invited to occupy seats in the Hall of the House of Representatives.