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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Resolved, That the Senate agree to the amendment of the House of Representatives to the amendment of the Senate to the bill of the House (H. R. 1143) to provide for the more efficient government of the insurrectionary States.