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Civil Rights Cases

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Civil Rights Cases

Five Supreme Court cases 1883 that tested the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which guaranteed protection from racial discrimination by private citizens. Congress considered this protection implicit in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, but the Court disagreed. According to an 8-1 ruling, the Thirteenth Amendment only prohibited forced servitude while the Fourteenth Amendment protected citizens only from discrimination by the state, not by private individuals. The Civil Rights Act was struck down, a decision not reversed until 1964.
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