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The Fourteenth Amendment is sent to the states.
Date: 1866
Laws/legislation/policy
Black history
Racism/white supremacy
The amendment extends citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S., but stops short of guaranteeing Black people the right to vote. It will take over two years to be ratified by all the states.
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