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One of the provisions of the civil rights act of 1866 was that a person could not be discriminated against based on the color of their skin. It said that every person was to be treat as an equal.

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it outlawed segregation in public places as well as discrimination by businesses and labor unions.

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that they were unimportant to the civil rights struggles of the 1960s

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