The U.S. Capitol 1866: Blacks & Whites Celebrating the Passage of The Civil Rights Amendment
1866 The Capitol: A Great America in the Making!
An 1866 illustration from Harper’s Weekly shows white women, White Union soldiers and African Americans celebrating new legislation in the Galleries of the House of Representatives in the Capitol. The 14th Amendment, that gave former enslaved people and landless white men full citizenship. (Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives)
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1866 The Capitol: A Great America in the Making!
An 1866 illustration from Harper’s Weekly shows white women, White Union soldiers and African Americans celebrating new legislation in the Galleries of the House of Representatives in the Capitol. The 14th Amendment, that gave former enslaved people and landless white men full citizenship. (Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives)
Topics: Abolitionists
1. Georgia Reconstruction Legislators: Aaron A. Bradley
2. Senator Charles Sumner
3. John Brown: Sumner, Border Ruffians
4. The Capitol Celebration during the Passage of the
1866 Civil Rights Amendment.
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