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Civil Rights Act of 1875, U.S. legislation, and the last of the major Reconstruction statutes, which guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public transportation and public accommodations and service on juries. The U.S. Supreme Court declared the act unconstitutional in the Civil Rights.
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Sadly, the Act was struck down in The Civil Rights Cases (1883) by a Supreme Court increasingly hostile to Reconstruction and African American civil rights. But the principle of protecting rights to public accommodation through federal legislation would be revived nearly a hundred years later, in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called the Enforcement Act or the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction era in response to civil rights violations against African Americans.
The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which makes it a crime for the operators of hotels, theaters, and other public accommodations to discriminate on the basis of race.
In a consolidated case, known as the Civil Rights Cases, the court found that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution granted Congress the right to regulate the behavior of states, not individuals.
24 Φεβ 2011 · After the Supreme Court ruled against the Civil Rights Act of 1875, every single Southern state redrafted its constitution. In South Carolina and Alabama, ballots were introduced to make it...
the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was virtually a new experiment in the use of federal power. Why Congress came, in 1875, to use this power, constitutes one of the most interesting aspects of Reconstruction history. The Civil Rights Bill had a five-year history in Congress before it became law. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts introduced the
