On this day in 1883, 137 years ago, in an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 1875 Civil Rights Act, which gave African Americans the right to equal access to public accommodations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the agency today unveiled a limited-edition stamp on Facebook comprising about 3,000 user-submitted profile pictures. The resulting ...