The civil rights act of 1875 did for nearly 100 years before it was declared as unconstitutional

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 outlawed discrimination in public facilities, but it was declared unconstitutional in 1883 by the Supreme Court. In the 1896 case of Plessy v. s. Ferguson, the verdict that separate but equal was constitutional led to the creation of Jim Crow laws that segregated businesses and public places.