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Civil Rights Act of 1875
The
Civil Rights Act of 1875
(–337), sometimes called
Enforcement Act
or
Force Act
, was a
United States federal law
enacted during the
Reconstruction Era
to guarantee
African Americans
equal treatment in
public accommodations
,
public transportation
, and to prohibit exclusion from
jury service
. The bill was passed by the
43rd United States Congress
and signed into law by
President
Ulysses S. Grant
on March 1, 1875. Several years later, the
Supreme Court
ruled in
Civil Rights Cases
(1883) that sections of the act were unconstitutional.
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