Harlan also noted that the act did not apply to saloons and read from a letter by Benjamin F. Butler, the white Massachusetts representative who sponsored the bill in Congress. The letter, dated March ...

U.S. Rep. Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, the co-author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Butler was denounced as "Beast" Butler by white New Orleanians after serving as administrator of the city ...

On this day in 1875, the House passed a civil rights act by a vote of 162-99. After the Senate concurred, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill into law on March 1. The legislation had been ...

When the Specie Payments act of 1875 was before Congress it was generally sustained by those who favored a sound currency, for the reason that it pledged the country to resumption at a fixed date ...

But that didn't happen — and wouldn't for decades — in part because of decisions handed down by the Supreme Court, which declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional in 1883.

On this day in 1875, the House passed a Civil Rights Act by a vote of 162-99. After the Senate concurred, President Ulysses Grant signed the bill into law on March 1.