17h 33min, may 19, 1866 y - Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, it provides citizenship rights for African Americans and guaranteed civil rights to all people except Native Americans.
Congress did this because in a series of public hearing, they heard testimony about black codes, were new laws used by southern states to control African Americans, the laws were like near slavery.
But President Johnson vetoed it and another extending the life of the Freedmen's Bureau. But Congress overturned the vetoed with a two-thirds vote.
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