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Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States by United States. Congress
Call Number: Online - free - Online Books Page

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Union--disunion--reunion.Three decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885. by Samuel Sullivan Cox
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Conscience and the Constitution by David A. J. Richards
Call Number: Jupiter General Collection KF4757 .R5 1993

ISBN: 0691032319

Publication Date: 1993-08-15

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"All men free and equal." The XVth amendment proclaimed.
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
Library of Congress - Web Guides - 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Document
15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Document
An Act: To amend an act approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purposes."
An Act: To enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purposes
Civil Rights Act 1866
The Creation of the 13th Amendment
The Creation of the 15th Amendment
The Ku Klux Klan Hearings - Documents
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876)