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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  2. Full Record: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  3. Committee:The House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1866-01-10 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

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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The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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Session 5467: 1866-01-10 12:00:00

Mr. Finck presented the memorial of Charles Follett; Morgan Jones from New York is sworn into the House; Mr. Noell's resolution, proposed on December 11, 1865, is referred to the Joint Committee on Reconstruction; the House continues to consider H. R. 1

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H. Res. 34

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JOINT RESOLUTION

For the amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be proposed, and when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution of the United States:

Congress may prescribe the qualifications of electors of the members of the House of Representatives and of presidential electors, and provide for the election and return of such officers.

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