Reply #74: The Civil Rights Act of 1886 was worthless

[Ken Burch]

All it said was that black people were citizens. By itself, that was meaningless.

Jim Crow went on for another eighty-eight years without it. Lynchings went on for another ninety years or more.

Civil Rights was never an issue where half-a-load had any value at all. That's why the Civil Rights Act of 1957 changed nothing.

There were people struggling before 1964. But there were no victories before. And state laws in the north don't count.