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.
A sub-committee of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction, organized to review the last article of the proposed amendment submitted to the Joint Committee by the sub-committee for the apportionment of representatives in Congress
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Article C is received by the Sub-Committee.
Article C.
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