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United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

The Civil Rights Amendments

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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Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction
Type Document Name Status Introduced Decision
Credentials of G. H. Kyle No decision Thursday, 21 December 1865 -
Certificate of Election of H. C. Warmoth No decision Thursday, 21 December 1865 -
Mr. Stevens' Constitutional Amendment No decision Tuesday, 09 January 1866 -
Resolution to Alter the Basis of Representation No decision Tuesday, 09 January 1866 -
Mr. Bingham's Constitutional Amendment No decision Friday, 12 January 1866 -
Mr. Stevens' Second Constitutional Amendment No decision Friday, 12 January 1866 -
Credentials of James Farrow No decision Friday, 12 January 1866 -
Credentials of John D. Kennedy No decision Friday, 12 January 1866 -
Article C No decision Saturday, 20 January 1866 -
Report Recommending Propositions for Constitutional Amendment No decision Saturday, 20 January 1866 -
Minority Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on H. Res. 51 No decision Saturday, 20 January 1866 -
S. Res. 23 No decision Wednesday, 24 January 1866 -
Resolution Inquiring into the Possibility of Requiring Disloyal Citizens to Contribute to the Cost of Standing Armies No decision Saturday, 27 January 1866 -
H. Res. 51 No decision Wednesday, 31 January 1866 -
Mr. Howard's Constitutional Amendment No decision Saturday, 03 February 1866 -
Plan of Reconstruction No decision Saturday, 21 April 1866 -
Plan of Reconstruction [As Considered by Sections] No decision Saturday, 21 April 1866 -
A Bill to Provide for the Restoration to the States Lately in Insurrection of Their Full Political Rights No decision Monday, 23 April 1866 -
S. Res. 76 No decision Saturday, 28 April 1866 -
A Bill to Declare Certain Persons Ineligible to Office No decision Saturday, 28 April 1866 -
Credentials of James M. Johnson No decision Tuesday, 19 December 1865 -
Resolution to Make the Admission of Rebellious States Conditional on Their Acceptance of Constitutional Amendment No decision Tuesday, 19 December 1865 -
Credentials of B. Johnson Barbour No decision Wednesday, 20 December 1865 -
Resolutions on Congress' Role in Former Confederate States No decision Wednesday, 10 January 1866 -
Resolution Endorsing the President's Annual Message and Denying the Right to Secede No decision Wednesday, 10 January 1866 -
S. Res. 24 No decision Thursday, 08 February 1866 -
Resolutions to Protect the Freedmen in the Reorganized Rebel States No decision Tuesday, 20 March 1866 -
H. Res. 109 No decision Tuesday, 17 April 1866 -
H. Res. 110 No decision Tuesday, 17 April 1866 -
Mr. Stevens' Resolution on Reconstruction No decision Saturday, 02 February 1867 -
S. 564 No decision Wednesday, 06 February 1867 -
S. 564 [As Amended in the Joint Committee on Reconstruction] No decision Wednesday, 06 February 1867 -
S. 106 No decision Tuesday, 30 January 1866 -
S. Res. 40 No decision Friday, 09 March 1866 -
S. Res. 48 No decision Saturday, 17 March 1866 -
S. Res. 62 No decision Friday, 13 April 1866 -
Resolution to Not Exclude Members of Congress from Rebellious States No decision Thursday, 11 January 1866 -
Resolution to Admit Members-Elect from Rebellious States Immediately No decision Tuesday, 23 January 1866 -
H. Res. 89 No decision Wednesday, 14 March 1866 -
H. R. 543 No decision Tuesday, 29 January 1867 -