An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.
Quill platform ID: p8182.
"(November 17, 1827 - November 4, 1906). John Nicholson was a lawyer, superintendent, brigadier general, and American politician. John was born in Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware, November 17, 1827. He was a superintendent of free schools for Kent County (1851). He studied law in Dover, Delaware and was admitted to the bar in 1850. He was a brigadier general of militia in Kent County in 1861. Nicholson was elected as a Democrat to the 39th and 40th Congresses from March 4, 1865 - March 3, 1869, was not renominated in 1868. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=N000099]"
Member of Delaware Delegation—United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866, Delaware Delegation—United States Fifteenth Amendment.
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