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forbids slavery across the United States and in every territory under its control, except as a criminal punishment. -
anyone born in the United States is a citizen and that all states must give citizens the same rights guaranteed by the federal government in the Bill of Rights -
guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” -
it prohibited groups of people from banding together with the intention of violating citizens’ constitutional rights. Even this legislation did not end harassment of black voters in some areas. -
this act placed administration of national elections under the control of the federal government and empowered federal judges and United States marshals to supervise local polling places. -
empowered the president to use the armed forces to combat those who conspired to deny equal protection of the laws and to suspend habeas corpus, if necessary, to enforce the act. -
guaranteed all citizens, regardless of color, access to accommodations, theatres, public schools, churches, and cemeteries