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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Papers on contested elections in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York are presented; E.D Holbrook from Idaho and Francis Thomas from Maryland enter the House; H. R. 1 is introduced and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
Resolved, That a committee of two members be appointed, to join such committee as may be appointed by the House of Representatives, to wait upon the President of the United States and inform him that a quorum of each House has assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make.
Ordered, That Mr. Grimes and Mr. Wright be the committee on the part of the Senate.