But, a federal appeals court claimed this program violated "section 1981 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act. The law prohibits discrimination based on race when enforcing contracts. And thus ...

File – Attorney Alphonso David speaks during a news conference Aug. 10, 2023, in New York. David, legal counsel for the Fearless Fund, said that there’s a “coordinated use of Section 1981 ...

Eric Foner: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is the last major piece ... But the Civil rights Law of 1866, and of course the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, remain in the Constitution.

Congress had enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1866 largely in response to perceived ... and to speak of them in religious or natural law and natural rights terms. In Section 1 of the Fourteenth ...

How DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies in the workplace The law was intended to protect Black people from economic exclusion. Lately it's been cited in ...

In 1964, almost 100 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241), with President Lyndon Baines Johnson signing it into law. The Civil ...