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unusual facts about Civil Rights Cases



Civil Rights Act of 1875

The Supreme Court of the United States in a nearly unanimous decision declared the act unconstitutional in the Civil Rights Cases (1883) with Justice John Marshall Harlan providing the lone dissent.


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Arthur Kinoy

He and his partner, William Kunstler, were two of the most prominent attorneys to handle civil rights cases in the south in the 1960s.

Moshé Machover

Machover's son Daniel Machover is a lawyer in London, specialising in human and civil rights cases.

William L. Taylor

Taylor worked with Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, assisting in civil rights cases that arose in the wake of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.