Welcoming ruin : : the Civil Rights Act of 1875 / / by Alan Friedlander, Richard Allan Gerber.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875, enacted March 1, 1875, banned racial discrimination in public accommodations – hotels, public conveyances and places of public amusement. In 1883 the U.S. Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, ushering in generations of segregation until 1964. This first full...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies in Critical Social Sciences 133.
Physical Description:1 online resource (689 pages).
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