Civil Rights Act of 1875

Civil Rights Act of 1875 was in a sense th last feeble gasp of the congressional radical Republicans. The act supposedly guarenteed equal accomodations in public places and prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection, but the law was born toothless and stayed that way for nearly a century. The supreme court pronounced much of the act unconstitutional in the Civil Rights Cases (1883). The court declared that the fourteenth ammendment prohibited only government violations of civil rights, nbot the denial of civil rights by individuals.