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Not a downvoter, but you may have missed nearly a century of US history. The first Civil Rights Act (note the capital letters) was enacted in 1866 and there is
by Fezzik 6y ago
Not a downvoter, but you may have missed nearly a century of US history. The first Civil Rights Act (note the capital letters) was enacted in 1866 and there is loads of caselaw prior to the 20th century dealing with Civil Rights. Plessy v. Ferguson, decided in 1896, is one of the many landmark fuckups where the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation, for example. It is cases like this that the prior comment is addressing, I imagine.
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- erichocean 6y ago> The first Civil Rights Act (note the capital letters) Title Case :P. I stand by the idea that modern "Civil Rights" began in earnest after WW2 and was primarily encoded in legislation in the mid-1960s (though some decisions were earlier—Brown v. Board of Education for example), and that modern Civil Rights (as a broad concept) supersedes the Anglo-derived legal system the US was founded on and replaces it with a different (and at times conflicting) set of principles. Do you actually disagree with any of that? I'm genuinely curious to find someone who thinks that the law didn't fundamentally change in favor of modern Civil Rights after WW2, vs. what came before…