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 Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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The Committee on the Judiciary reports a resolution on the contested election of Senator John P. Stockton; the Senate continues to consider S. 61, as in Committee of the Whole
Resolved, That John P. Stockton was not duly elected, and is not entitled to his seat, as a senator from the State of New Jersey, for the term of six years from the 4th day of March, 1865.