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Text of Civil Rights Law of 1868

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: Text of Civil Rights Law of 1868
Creator:: Arkansas Gazette
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1873-01-24
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: articles
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Article in the Arkansas Gazette questioning the need for proposed civil rights legislation in 1873, when a similar law from 1868 was still in effect.
Civil Rights -- Blacks -- African-Americans -- Reconstruction -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Public Accomodations -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
THE CIVIL RIGHTS LAW We republish below the civil rights law passes by the general assembly of 1868. Just exactly why the colored members of the present legislature should desire to pass another law like this, while the first still remains in full force and ef- fect, we cannot comprehend. Here is the law of 1868: AN ACT to punish public carriers and others for refusing persons passage, lodging, admission, etc. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the Gen- eral Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That when any person shall apply for passage on a steamboat, railroad, street car, stage coach or any other ve- hicle or carriage, is used or run as public carriers, shall be refused passage or trans- portation equal to first-class passage and accommodation, for any other reason, cause or excuse, than such are known as valid, good or sufficient in and by the common law, upon such person first tendering to such owner, agent, superin- tendent, or driver, of such steamboat, railroad, street car, stage coach, or any vehcle or carriage, an amount equal to
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1731
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1731/manifest.json
Additional Rights Information:: Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
Original Collection:: Arkansas Gazette, January 24, 1873
Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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