History A-Level
Judicial interpretation and civil rights
What Judicial interpretation and civil rights means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Judicial interpretation and civil rights
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The Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited racial discrimination in public accommodations, was unconstitutional.
Topics that use Judicial interpretation and civil rights
- Paper 3, Option 39.1: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009 - 2 The triumph of ‘Jim Crow’, 1883–c1900 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Federal retreat from civil rights protection
- Grandfather clause
- Judicial endorsement of segregation and disenfranchisement
- Legal segregation
- The ‘separate but equal’ doctrine and its consequences
- The legal entrenchment of white supremacy in the South
- Voter suppression
- Federalism and the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment
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