Category Archives: Acts and Amendments
39 H.R. 1183 (Referred to Committee Senate)
39 H.R. 85 (Reported in Senate)
39 H.R. 956
39 S. 61 (Ordered to be Printed Senate)
40 H.R. 122 (Referred to Committee House)
40 H.R. 124 (Referred to Committee House)
40 S. 708
41 H.R. 1815 (Referred to Committee House)
41 S. 197
41 S. 3
41 S. 503 (Introduced in Senate)
41 S. 810 (Introduced in Senate)
41 S. 871
42 H.R. 2069
42 H.R. 3074
42 H.R. 320
42 S. 243
43 H.R. 322
43 H.R. 4454
43 H.R. 796 (Referred to Committee Senate)
46 S. 1721
Address of the colored citizens of Chicago to the Congress of the United States.
Affairs in Insurrectionary States. Part 7: Georgia, Vol. 2
Affairs in the late insurrectionary states.
Amnesty and Civil Rights
An Act for the Disposal of the Public Lands for Homestead Actual Settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida
An Act to amend the Act calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions, approved February twenty-eight seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and the Acts amendatory thereof, and for other Purposes
An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes
An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication
An act to relieve S. J. Gholson of Mississippi, of political disabilities imposed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution
An Act To remove the disability imposed by section three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by Alabama. July 20, 1868
Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by Georgia. July 27, 1868
Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by Louisiana. July 18, 1868
Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by North Carolina. July 11, 1868
Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by South Carolina. July 18, 1868
Certifying that the fifteenth amendment has become valid, and a part of the Constitution of the United States. March 30, 1870
Certifying that the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution has been adopted, if, &c. July 20, 1868
Certifying that the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution has been adopted. July 28, 1868
Civil Rights
Civil Rights
Colored People of Memphis Celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation
Effect of the Fifteenth Amendment
Effects of the President’s Emancipation Proclamation: A Bombshell in the Rebel Camp.
Emancipation Proclamation.
Is Slavery Dead
Judge Curtis’s View of the Executive Power
Jurors and the Civil Rights Bill
Message from the President of the United States, returning bill (S. no. 61) “to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication,” with his objections thereof.
Message of the President of the United States, communicating a letter addressed to him from a committee of gentlemen representing the Freedman’s Aid Societies of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, in relation to the freedmen under the proclamation of emancipation.
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th of January last, calling for information in relation to violations of the act entitled “An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights and furnish the means of their vindication,” such information as is in the possession of the departments on the subject, and the steps taken to enforce the law.
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th of January last, calling for information in relation to violations of the act entitled “An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights and furnish the means of their vindication,” such information as is in the possession of the departments on the subject, and the steps taken to enforce the law.
Our Contributors.: The Negro Voters Must Be Educated
Passage of the Civil Rights Bill.
Proclamation of Emancipation: Freedom of the Slaves in Rebellious States on the First Day of January Next.
Public Lands of the Untied States: Pre-emption Laws Homestead Law Coal Lands Petroleum
Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment: To the Senate and House of Representatives.
Refuge of Oppression.: The Emancipation Proclamation
Removal of Causes from State to Federal Court Act to Enforce Fourteenth Amendment.: The People of the State of Illinois v. The Chicago and Alton Railroad Company. Circuit Court of the United States, for the Southern District of Illinois, June 18, 1874. Present: Mr. Justice DAVIS; Drummond, Circuit Judge, and Treat, District Judge.
Removal of disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of the Constitution.
Report and Testimony on the Alleged Outrages in the Southern States, by the Select Committee of the Senate
Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Resolution of the Legislature of Georgia ratifying the proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Resolutions adopted at a public meeting held in Washington City January 5, 1872, in favor of the passage of the bill (S. 99) supplementary to an act entitled “An act to protect all citizens of the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means for their vindication,” passed April 9, 1866.
Senator Trumbull’s Review of the Veto
States Rights v. Civil Rights
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt10, vol1
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt11, vol1
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt12, vol 2
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt13
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt2
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt3, vol1
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt4, vol2
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt5, vol3
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt6, vol1
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt7, vol2
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt8, vol1
Testimony taken by the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, pt9, vol2
The Civil Rights Bill
The Civil Rights Bill
The Constitutional Amendment
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Ku-Klux Act.
The National Guaranty of Civil Rights
The Obstructive President.
The President’s Emancipation Proclamation
The President’s Emancipation Proclamation
The President’s Opinion: Of the Wisdom and Effect of His Emancipation Proclamation
The Press on the President’s Emancipation Proclamation
The Senate Civil Rights Bill
The Traitorous President.
The Civil Rights Bill.
The Civil Rights Bill.
The Civil Rights Bill.
The Civil Rights Bill.
The Civil Rights Bill.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
U.S. Homestead Law
Veto of the Civil Rights Bill
Victoria C. Woodhull.
[Presidential proclamation implementing Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in States in rebellion]
[Resolution instructing Committee on Judiciary to report on bill to remove political disabilities imposed by fourteenth amendment to Constitution]
Amendatory of ‘An Act for the disposal of the public lands for homestead actual settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida’, 1867
An Act for the disposal of the public lands for homestead actual settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida, 1866
A Bill To enforce the thirteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States., 1867
An Act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication, 1866
A Bill to facilitate the occupation of public lands by freedmen under the homestead act, 1867
A Bill to further extend and apply the provisions of the ‘Act for the disposal of the public lands for homestead actual settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida,’ approved June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, 1867
A Bill to repeal so much of the act passed June twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, as provides for the admission of the State of Georgia to representation in Congress, and to provide for a provisional government therein, and for other purposes., 1868
A bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 1870
Bill To enforce the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution and the laws of the United States, and to restore the State of Georgia to the republican government elected under its new constitution., 1869
A bill to enforce the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution and the laws of the United States in the State of Georgia, and to restore to that State the republican government elected under its new constitution., 1869
A bill extending the provisions of the civil rights bill for the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment of the Constitution, 1870
A bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 1870
A Bill To enforce the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and to secure and protect the rights, privileges, and immunities of American citizenship, and to furnish the means for their vindication., 1870
A Bill To provide for the enforcement of the second section of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States., 1872
A bill to repeal the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth sections of the act entitled ‘An Act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes.’, 1872
A Bill To enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes., 1871
A Bill to more fully to enforce the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States., 1871
A bill to repealing the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution., 1873
An act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes, 1875
House and Senate Reports: An Act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights, 1875
A bill to enforce the provisions of section 2 of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States., 1880
House and Senate Documents: Address of colored citizens of Chicago to Congress on civil rights, 1866
Congressional Hearings: This is a 13-volume collection of reports and testimonies from a Congressional committee that investigated the Ku Klux Klan and other insurrectionary movements in the former Confederacy after the close of the Civil War. The committee made their report in 1872. The report proper is in the first volume; the other volumes contain testimonies and miscellaneous documents., 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 1: Report and minority views, 1871
News editorial in favor of the Civil Rights bill, 1872
Law Text: An Act for the Disposal of the Public Lands for Homestead Actual Settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida, 1866
Text of the Militia Act of 1862, 1862
Law Text: An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes, 1871
Law Text: An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication, 1866
Law Text: An act to relieve S. J. Gholson of Mississippi, of political disabilities imposed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, 1876
Law Text: An Act To remove the disability imposed by section three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 1898
Law Text: Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by Alabama. July 20, 1868, 1868
Law Text: Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by Georgia. July 27, 1868, 1868
Law Text: Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by Louisiana. July 18, 1868, 1868
Law Text: Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by North Carolina. July 11, 1868, 1868
Law Text: Announcing the ratification of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by South Carolina. July 18, 1868, 1868
Law Text: Certifying that the fifteenth amendment has become valid, and a part of the Constitution of the United States. March 30, 1870, 1870
Law Text: Certifying that the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution has been adopted, if, &c. July 20, 1868, 1868
Law Text: Certifying that the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution has been adopted. July 28, 1868, 1868
News editorial against the Civil Rights bill, 1875
News editorial against the Civil Rights bill, 1874
News article: On Memphis celebrations of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1864
Political cartoon on the 15th amendment, 1871
News article: On resolutions against the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
News article: On the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
News article: On the effects of the Emancipation on slavery and the civil war, 1864
News article: Judge Curtis’s opinion on the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
News editorial against the Civil Rights bill, 1874
House and Senate Documents: Veto message on bill to protect all persons in United States in their civil rights and furnish means of their vindication, 1866
Message of President communicating letter from committee representing Freedmen’s Aid Societies of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, 1863
House and Senate Documents: Message of President on violations of civil rights bill, 1867
House and Senate Documents: Message of President on violations of civil rights bill, 1867
News editorial on the 15th amendment, 1870
News article: on the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1866
News article: On the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
News article: on the Homestead Act, 1867
Article on the 15th Amendment written by Ulysses S. Grant, 1870
News article: Multiple press responses to the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
News article: On the 14th Amendment, 1874
House and Senate Reports: To remove disability of Confederates imposed by 14th amendment to Constitution, 1898
Congressional Hearings: Report and Testimony on the Alleged Outrages in the Southern States, by the Select Committee of the Senate, 1871
House and Senate Documents: Annual report of Commissioner of General Land Office, 1866, 1866
House and Senate Documents: Resolution of legislature of Georgia ratifying fourteenth amendment of Constitution, 1870
House and Senate Documents: Resolutions for passage of bill supplementary to act to protect all citizens of United States in their civil rights, and to furnish means for their vindication, 1872
News article: Senator Trumbull’s response to the President’s explanation of his veto, 1866
News editorial in favor of the Civil Rights bill, 1874
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 10: Alabama, v. 3, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 11: Mississippi, v. 1, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 12: Mississippi, v. 2, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 13: Florida, and miscellaneous, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 2: North Carolina, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 3: South Carolina, v. 1, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 4: South Carolina, v. 2, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 5: South Carolina, v. 3, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 6: Georgia, v. 1, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 7: Georgia, v. 2, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 8: Alabama, v. 1, 1871
House and Senate Reports: Affairs in insurrectionary States, pt. 9: Alabama, v. 2, 1871
News article: on the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1866
News article on the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1866
News article: Account of someone who was a spectator in the House of Representatives during the Civil Rights Act of 1866 vote, 1866
News article: On the writing of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1864
Newspaper printing of the text of the 14th Amendment, 1868
News article: On the Ku Klux Act / Civil Rights Act of 1871, 1874
News editorial on the Civil Rights bill, 1872
News article: on Andrew Johnson’s vetoing of popular bills, 1866
Journal article: On Wendell Phillips’s response to the Emancipation Proclamation, 1864
Journal article: On the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
News article: Responses to the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
News article: Multiple press responses to the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
News editorial on the Civil Rights bill, 1874
News editorial on Andrew Johnson’s vetoing of popular bills, 1866
News editorial against the Civil Rights bill, 1874
News editorial against the Civil Rights bill, 1874
News editorial in favor of the Civil Rights bill, 1874
News editorial written in response and opposition to E. H. Fairchild’s article against the Civil Rights bill, 1875
News editorial on the Civil Rights bill, 1875
News article reporting on the passing of the 15th amendment, 1870
News article on the 15th amendment, 1870
News article on the 15th amendment, 1870
News article on the 15th amendment, 1869
News article on the 15th amendment, 1870
News article on the 15th amendment, 1870
News article: on the Homestead Act, 1869
News article: Andrew Johnson on why he vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1866
House and Senate Reports: Memorial of Victoria C. Woodhull on interpretation of fourteenth amendment to Constitution and right to vote without regard to sex, with minority report, 1871
Presidential Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
House and Senate Documents: Resolution instructing Committee on Judiciary to report on bill to remove political disabilities imposed by fourteenth amendment to Constitution, 1884