Eric Foner: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is the last major ... Some of it doesn't. The 1875 law was declared unconstitutional. But the Civil rights Law of 1866, and of course the Fourteenth ...

After the 1875 Civil Rights Act was struck down as unconstitutional, the door was open for Southern states to introduce ‘Jim Crow’ laws on segregation. The clip can be used as historical ...