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.

Thomas Jenckes

Quill platform ID: p4580.

(2 November, 1818 -- 4 November, 1875) Jenckes was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Cumberland, R.I., Jenckes studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. Jenckes was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774- Present', available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp]

Member of Rhode Island Delegation—United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866, Rhode Island Delegation—United States Fifteenth Amendment, Rhode Island Delegation—United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65, Rhode Island Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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