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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The House is called to order and organizes itself; a resolution is proposed creating a Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction.
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed, on the part of the House, to join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait upon the President of the United States, to inform him that a quorum of the two Houses of Congress has assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communication he may make.