Civil Rights Act of 1875

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18 Stat. 335 ) was a Republican Senator Charles Sumner from the proposed together with the Republican Congressman Benjamin Franklin Butler federal law in the United States. It was adopted on March 1, 1875 by Congress and signed by President Ulysses S. Grant.

Content was equal access to all facilities of public life (eg hotels, trains, ferries, theaters, & c. ) Regardless of race, color or previous slave status. The Supreme Court of the United States ( dissenting opinion with a different decision of John Marshall Harlan ) declared the law in 1883 on the grounds unconstitutional that Congress had no authority to regulate the behavior of individuals. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting by former court considers bypassing the civil rights only by the state, but not by individuals.

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