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 Senate continues to consider H. Res. 51
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing to amend the Constitution of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, shall be valid as part of said Constitution, viz:
After the census, to be taken in the year 1870, and each succeeding census, Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, countin each Statg the whof male electors over twenty-one years of age, qualified by the laws thereof to choose membnumber of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed: Provided, That whenevers of the most numerous belective franch of its Legislature; and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the severaldenied or abridged in any States on according to the value of the real andunt of race or color, all personal taxable propertys therein of situate in each State not belonging to the State or torace or color shall be excluded from the United Statesbasis of representation.