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Harper's Weekly June 2, 1866. A Sign in Virginia.

The Virginia Union Convention organized the Republican Party of Virginia and led to subsequent events that resulted in Freedmen suffrage at the end of…

In the spring of 1867, Congress passed an act that required the former Confederate states to hold conventions, in which African Americans were…

An Act to establish the Freedmen's Bureau and Abandoned Lands.

Encyclopedia of events within the United States for the year 1867.

14th Amendment

The text of the Fourteenth Amendment on July 20, 1866, after it passed both houses of Congress.