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Events on Thursday 9 July 1868 1
1868Fourteenth Amendment ratifiedUS Constitution grants citizenship and equal protectionThe Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteeing equal protection under the law. It reversed the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision and became a cornerstone of later civil rights litigation. It is one of the Reconstruction Amendments following the Civil War.