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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Resolved, (the Senate concurring,) That the joint committee of fifteen on reconstruction appointed during the last session of Congress shall be reappointed under the same rules and regulations as then existed, and that all the documents and regulations which were referred then be now considered as referred to them anew.