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14th AmendmentThe text of the Fourteenth Amendment on July 20, 1866, after it passed both houses of Congress.
Encyclopedia of events within the United States for the year 1867.
An Act to establish the Freedmen's Bureau and Abandoned Lands.
In the spring of 1867, Congress passed an act that required the former Confederate states to hold conventions, in which African Americans were…
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…
Legislative Acts/Legal Proceedings within the Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser.Four pages of the Richmond Whig from March 8, 1867.
The actions of Freedmen in Alexandria encouraged other former enslaved to vote in elections.…
Liberty, and Equality Before The Law. : Proceedings of The Convention of The Colored People of VA., Held in The City of Alexandria, AUG. 2, 3, 4, 5, 1865.Freedmen in Alexandria meet and demand the right to vote at the end of the United States Civil War.
Pamphlet.
15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.Text of the Fifteenth Amendment through the Congressional Globe and related resources through the Library of Congress.