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 Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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Mr. Williams gives notice of an amendment to S. 292
JOINT RESOLUTION
Providing for the representation of the several States in the Congress of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the interests of peace and the interests of the Union require the admission of every State to its share in public legislation, whenever it presents itself not only in an attitude of loyalty and harmony, but in the persons of representatives whose loyalty cannot be questioned under any constitutional or legal test.