Civil Right Cases 1883. The civil rights cases, 109 u.s. The sections of the law referred to provide as follows:

The stanley, ryan, nichols, and singleton cases were submitted together by the solicitor general at the last term of court, on the 7th day of november, 1882. If the grant to colored citizens of the united states of citizenship in their respective states imports exemption from race discrimination, in their states, in respect of the civil rights belonging to citizenship, then, to hold that the amendment remits that right to the states for their protection, primarily, and stays the hands of the nation, until it is assailed by state laws or state. These cases were all founded on the first and second sections of the act of congress, known as the civil rights act, passed march 1st, 1875, entitled an act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights. 18 stat.