Eric Foner: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is the last major piece of Reconstruction legislation. It outlaws racial discrimination in public accommodations -- hotels, transportation, opera houses ...

I am truly amazed at the second group of Black men of Knoxville and others across the state as they fought for the passage of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1875. They followed the first group of ...

On this day in 1875, a decade after the end ... lots of leverage in Congress, no further civil rights legislation emerged until the weak Civil Rights Act of 1957. With the passage of the Civil ...

2013-06-15T20:00:04-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/d50/20130615210352003_hd.jpgShawn Leigh Alexander spoke about the era in between the end of slavery and the ...

Sponsor Message Five years later, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a groundbreaking federal law proposed by Republican Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, which guaranteed that ...

But on July 2, 1964, in the midst of a civil rights movement that had been growing in voice and numbers for many years, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA ... (Photo: ...