Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

Tag Archives: 14th amendment

Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Congressional Hearings: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights on bills to either extend or amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965; NAACP called as a witness, 1969-1970

Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill

Text of the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill: A Bill for the better assurance of the protection of persons from mob violence and lynching, 1937

Document 158: February 11, 1937 Letter with attachment

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Progress in formulating an antilynching bill that will meet constitutional tests and transmits a Justice Department memorandum assessing the NAACP proposed antilynching bill, reviewing distinctions between the present bill and previous antilynching bills, and examining the constitutional basis for the statute, with a review of relevant case law, 1937

Mississippi in 1875. Vol. 1

Congressional Hearings: June 9, 10, 12, 13, 15-17, 19-24, hearings were held in Jackson, Miss; June 26, 27 hearings were held in Aberdeen, Miss. Hearing was issued as S. Rpt. 44-527, 1876

42 H.R. 3074

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

41 S. 197

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

43 H.R. 4454

An act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes, 1875

42 H.R. 2069

A Bill To provide for the enforcement of the second section of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States., 1872

41 S. 871 

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

41 S. 3

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

46 S. 1721

A bill to enforce the provisions of section 2 of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States., 1880

40 S. 708

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