After the Civil War, the importance of contracts was strengthened by the passage of the
Civil Rights Act of 1866, which specifically included "the right to make and enforce contracts" among those accorded to former slaves.
It cites the
Civil Rights Act of 1866, which provides equal rights regardless of skin color.
com)-- The Humane Party, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the
Civil Rights Act of 1866, has established April 9 as Civil Rights Day.
In response to the continued legal and extralegal persecution of free blacks (and white Republicans) in the South, Republicans in Congress enacted the
Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Amar, supra note 13, at 194-97; George Rutherglen, Civil Rights in the Shadow of Slavery: The Constitution, Common Law, and the
Civil Rights Act of 1866, at 70-92 (2013); ZIETLOW, supra note 29, at 41^12; White, supra note 22, at 772-76.
The first section of the amendment was an effort to place into the Constitution the provisions of the
Civil Rights Act of 1866, designed to combat the notorious Black Codes that had been enacted in several southern states.
It is in this light that the
Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enacted.
13) The following year, in response to legislation unfriendly to the freedmen in some of the Southern states, Congress passed the
Civil Rights Act of 1866, extending to all American citizens, regardless of race or previous status, a federal guarantee of the basic rights to own and convey property, to make contracts, and to use the civil courts to vindicate property rights.
After the
Civil Rights Act of 1866, black Americans were able to become citizens and become homesteaders, and many did so.
Those rights, which were listed in various documents, such as the
Civil Rights Act of 1866 and Justice Washington's opinion in Corfield v.
Similar sentiments were expressed frequently in the debates over the
Civil Rights Act of 1866, which protected the rights of "citizens of every race and color" to make contracts, to own and convey real and personal property, and generally "to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property," and which eventually became the basis for the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Thirty-Ninth Congress adopted the
Civil Rights Act of 1866 (in April 1866 over President Johnson's veto) (43) to enforce the rights of newly freed slaves under the recently-ratified Thirteenth Amendment.
