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 Senate amendments to the resolution for the appointment of a Joint Committee on Reconstruction are concurred in
Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to consider the expediency of reporting an amendment to the Constitution of the United States which shall provide, substantially, that no State shall make any distinction in the exercise of the elective franchise on account of race or color.