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Constitution and Amendments

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Constitutional Amendments and Major Civil Rights Acts of Congress Referenced in Black Americans in Congress (US House)
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Thirteenth Amendment

Thirteenth Amendment - Abolition of Slavery
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Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

Fourteenth Amendment - Equal Protection and Other Rights
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Fifteenth Amendment (1870)

Fifteenth Amendment - Right of Citizens to Vote
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Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments

18th & 21st Amendments - Prohibition
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Nineteenth Amendment

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Woman Suffrage
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Twenty-First Amendment

See 18th Amendment.

21st Amendment repealed 18th.

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