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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H. R. 1143 is vetoed by the President of the United States and sent back to the House; the second session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress adjourns
Mr. Speaker: The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution of the United States, to reconsider the bill (H. R. 1143) to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States, returned to the House of Representatives by the President, with his objections, and sent by the House to the Senate, with the message of the President accompanying the same, have resolved that the bill do pass, two-thirds of the Senate agreeing to the same.