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Events on Monday 1 March 1875 1
1875Civil Rights Act of 1875 signedUS law bans racial discrimination in public accommodationsPresident Ulysses S. Grant signed a law guaranteeing African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, transportation, and jury service. The Supreme Court struck down most of the act in 1883, and comparable federal protections were not restored until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.