- Collection:
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
- Title:
- Stephen Field to Salmon Chase
- Creator:
- Field, Stephen Johnson, 1816-1899
- Date of Original:
- 1866-06-30
- Subject:
- United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Judges--United States
United States. Supreme Court
African Americans--Civil rights - People:
- Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873
Field, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson), 1816-1899
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Letter from Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field to Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, dated June 30, 1866, expressing his support for the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment gave citizenship to African Americans and guaranteed equal protection for all citizens under the law.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_evenhand_br0002cp1s
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/br0002cp1s.jpg
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty Collection, Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
Stephen Field to Salmon Chase
