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The Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called the Enforcement Act [a] or the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction era in response to civil rights violations against African Americans.
A state law that excludes citizens from jury service on account of race or color is a denial of the equal protection of the law; and; It is within Congress's power under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to provide for the removal to federal court those cases arising under state law where that state's law denies a party the equal protection of their rights.
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, but revised the first act with the intention of being more effective. The Act of 1871 has more severe punishments with larger fines for disregarding the regulations, and the prison sentences vary in length.
Harlan J would have held the Civil Rights Act of 1875 valid, because people were left "practically at the mercy of corporations and individuals wielding power under public authority". His judgment went as follows. John Marshall Harlan became known as the "Great Dissenter" for his fiery dissent in Civil Rights Cases and other early civil rights ...
A ride at the Florida State Fair in Tampa reportedly shut down with some patrons suspended upside down, while others were repeatedly flipped and whipped back and forth by the wind last Friday.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. [2] In the wake of the American Civil War, the Act was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent born in or brought to the United States. [3]
The frat was suspended when last fall, while it was already prohibited from hosting social events due to “organizational misconduct,” it allegedly hosted an unauthorized event in November. A ...
A Black Texas high school student has been suspended for more than a week because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code, his mother said. It could become a test of a new state law ...