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.
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Committee: House Committee on the Judiciary
S. 61: First House Judiciary Committee Amendment Tuesday March 1866Committee: House Committee on the Judiciary
S. 61: Second House Judiciary Committee Amendment Tuesday March 1866Committee: House Committee on the Judiciary
S. 61: Third House Judiciary Committee Amendment Tuesday March 1866Committee: House Committee on the Judiciary
S. 61: Fourth House Judiciary Committee Amendment Tuesday March 1866Committee: House Committee on the Judiciary
S. 61: Fifth House Judiciary Committee Amendment Tuesday March 1866Committee: House Committee on the Judiciary
S. No. 61. “An Act to protect all persons in the U. S. in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication,” was considered [and] sundry amendments were made [and] then it was agreed to recommend its passage. (Pg. 135) Tuesday March 1866