civil rights acts of 1871

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY March 1, 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition

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No Friends of the Negro Up North: (A) large number of contraband Negroes had fled to Cairo, Illinois. Seeking help for them, Brigadier General T.W. Tuttle wrote to Mayor Sherman of Chicago, saying: "I have a large number of applications from your city for Negro servants. Will you....see that they a... View More

March 1, 2023

Unreconstructed

Treatment of Blacks in the North From, “The Truths of History”, pgs. 92, 93. The South claims that race prejudice has been, and now is, far greater in the North than in the South.... View MoreTreatment of Blacks in the North From, “The Truths of History”, pgs. 92, 93. The South claims that race prejudice has been, and now is, far greater in the North than in the South. In his “Democracy in America”, De Toqueville, the French writer, says; “Though the electoral franchise has been conferred on the negroes in all the free States, if they come forward to vote their lives are in danger. Negroes may serve by law on juries but prejudice repels them from office. They have separate schools, separate hospital wards, and separate galleries in the theaters. In the South it is quite different with the negro. Undoubtedly, the prejudice of the race appears to be much stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North, but do it in almost every Southern State unless Northern men among their workmen oppose it.” Negroes left their homes in Alabama to work in Illinois, but many were killed and others driven from the State. Were the murderers of those negroes ever brought to trial? One Republican said: “If any more negroes come to Illinois, I will meet them on the border with gatling-guns!” Mr. Seward, March 3, 1858 said: “The white man needs this continent to labor in and must have it.” The Legislature of Kansas, the home of John Brown, said: “This state is for whites only.” In 1850, 1855 and 1865, Michigan refused suffrage to free negroes. In 1864 no negro could vote in Nevada. “In Illinois (Lincoln’s State) no negro nor mulatto was allowed to remain in the State ten days. If a negro came into the State he was to be sold at auction.” In twenty-seven counties of Indiana no negro was allowed to live. If any white man encouraged him to come to the State he was fined. In Boston the negroes are segregated. In Ohio the negroes were warned if they did not segregate some dire calamity would befall them. In New York City and Washington City this question of segregation is of serious import today and under constant discussion. No negro can live in Oregon. As to the condition of the slaves in the South under the institution of slavery, Major-General Quitman, of New York, an army officer who was stationed near a Mississippi plantation before the war, says in a letter to his father: “Every night she has family prayers with her slaves. When a minister comes, which is very frequently, prayers are said night and morning, and chairs are always provided for the servants. “They are married by a clergyman of their own color, and a sumptuous supper is always prepared. They are a happy, careless, unreflecting, good-natured race-who left to themselves would degenerate into drones or brutes. They have great family pride and are the most arrant aristocrats in the world.” (The Secession War in America,” by J.P. Shaffull, published in New York, 1862)

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March 1, 2023