Women are not treated equally in America. Even though America is a free country, there are some families that husbands beat their wives and are not allowed to go out! <span />
It stated that all negroes of slave descendancy were not citizens nor could sue in federal courts. Federal government have no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
How racist huh? Thank god it was overturned.
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Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, which legally ended the segregation that had been institutionalized by Jim Crow laws. And in 1965, the Voting Rights Act halted efforts to keep minorities from voting. The Fair Housing Act of 1968, which ended discrimination in renting and selling homes, followed.