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29Feb
2016

This Week in History – Civil Rights Act of 1875

Featured Photo: Civil Rights Act of 1875 Declared Unconstitutional. In 1883, The United States Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights act of 1875, forbidding discrimination in hotels, trains, and other public spaces, was ...

03Mar
2014

This Week in History: 2-3-14

On March 2, 1807, Congress abolished the slave trade. On March 3, 1991, an amateur video captures the Los Angeles police department beating motorist Rodney King, raising public concern over police treatment of minorities. On ...