The Supreme Court’s ruling in the civil rights cases of 1883 led to

In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 that barred racial discrimination in public accommodations. This weakened federal protection against segregation and helped clear the way for Jim Crow laws to spread in the South. The ruling did not create sharecropping or start the Democratic Party.

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