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October 15th

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  1. 1883
    The Record

    The Civil Rights Cases decided

    The U.S. Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in the Civil Rights Cases, striking down the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Justice John Marshall Harlan writes a lone dissent that becomes canon.

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