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    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...
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  • Civil Rights Act may refer to several acts of the United States Congress, including: Civil Rights Act of 1866, extending the rights of emancipated slaves...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The...
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  • interpretations of the Clause to expand federal power have been subject to criticism. During Reconstruction, Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which...
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    Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1960 (Pub. L. 86–449, 74 Stat. 89, enacted May 6, 1960) is a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local...
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  • allowed to end of slavery with the Civil Rights Act of 1866, followed by women's suffrage, among other rights, The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enacted...
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  • Transport and bus boycotts in the United States (category Civil rights movement protests)
    racial segregation of transport services. These occurred before the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed such forms of discrimination. In...
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    Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections...
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    down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, Arthur favored new civil rights legislation to protect African-Americans, but was unable to win passage of a new bill...
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  • desired it. The Enforcement Act of 1871 (second act) and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 are very similar to the original act as they all have the same goal...
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  • widespread organizing led Congress to approve the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which granted equal rights to Black citizens in public accommodations. In 1883...
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    James T. Rapier (category African-American members of the United States House of Representatives)
    Republican Party, one of seven blacks serving in the 43rd Congress. He worked in 1874 for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which guaranteed equal...
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    departments and agencies. The first major piece of civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was also passed under the Eisenhower administration...
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  • new civil rights Even if the state governments ignored the problem. These included the Enforcement Acts of 1870–71 and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Ex-Confederates...
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    The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act (41st Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 114, 16 Stat...
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    Morrison Waite (category Members of the Ohio House of Representatives)
    United States. However in the Civil Rights Cases he sided with a majority to strike down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which had prohibited discrimination...
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    passed additional legislation to enforce civil rights, such as the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. However, continuing resistance to Reconstruction...
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    right to vote. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was also meant to ensure equality in access to housing and transport, but in the Civil Rights Cases, the Supreme...
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  • Resumption Act of January 14, 1875 was a law in the United States that restored the nation to the gold standard through the redemption of previously unbacked...
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    Tennessee, in the form of the "Army and Navy Law", passed in 1879, shortly after the 14th amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1875; previous laws invalidated...
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    Sam Rayburn (category Deans of the United States House of Representatives)
    1957 and 1960, the first civil rights bills passed by the U.S. Congress since the Enforcement Acts and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 during Reconstruction...
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  • criminal actions. In the Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court allowed segregation by striking down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a statute that prohibited...
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  • attendees at the White House's Blue Room. Civil Rights Act of 1875 Ogilvie, W. (May 29, 1873). "The National Equal Rights Convention, which met Dec. 9th, 1873...
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    Cleveland 1875 – Aristides (horse) wins first Kentucky Derby 1875 – Resumption Act 1875Civil Rights Act of 1875 1875 – The Art Students League of New York...
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    the civil rights of all Americans, "irrespective of nationality, color, or religion." Grant had no role in writing the Civil Rights Act of 1875 but he...
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    that the U.S. Constitution and civil rights were not applicable to them. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, but it was overturned by the U...
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  • Racial discrimination in jury selection (category History of civil rights in the United States)
    had abolished slavery and guaranteed basic civil rights to African-Americans; the Civil Rights Act of 1875 extended this to "public accommodation" and...
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    related to the Civil Rights Act of 1866. On March 9, 1866, Congressman John Bingham explained that, "the seventh and eighth sections of the Freedmen's...
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