US Event #2

My second US event is:

The proposal of the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

Although the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was overturned and deemed unconstitutional, I think that it is worthy of being noted. It was a major attempt to improve the quality of life for African-Americans, that was way ahead of it's time. It is pretty much the opposite of the Jim Crow Laws, because it made equal facilities necessary for both white and black people. It proposed fines for those who made equal public accommodations unattainable for black members of the US. I chose this event because of how starkly it contrasted what was happening in Europe with Imperialism. Although the US was attempting to take back control over the Confederation (a little bit like European countries taking control of African and Indian countries), people were trying to integrate the minority, and create equality. I think it is really interesting that there was an Act that proposed equal rights to public attractions around the same time as not only the Jim Crow laws, but also Imperialism in Europe.