Civil Rights Act of 1862

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf legislation
gptkbp:affiliatedWith gptkb:American_Missionary_Association
gptkb:NAACP
gptkb:Freedmen's_Bureau
gptkbp:amends gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1866
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Frederick_Douglass
gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln
gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkb:W.E.B._Du_Bois
gptkb:Charles_Sumner
gptkb:Ida_B._Wells
gptkb:Harriet_Tubman
gptkb:Wendell_Phillips
Booker T. Washington
Sojourner Truth
Thaddeus Stevens
gptkbp:criticism Southern Democrats
gptkbp:enactedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1875
gptkbp:enforces gptkb:Department_of_Justice
gptkb:U.S._Army
gptkbp:historicalContext gptkb:post-Civil_War_America
gptkbp:historicalPeriod increased awareness of civil rights issues
foundation for future civil rights activism
increased federal involvement in civil rights
gptkbp:historicalSignificance paved_the_way_for_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Civil Rights Act of 1862
gptkbp:impact gptkb:African_Americans
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1871
Fourteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
gptkbp:inspiredBy abolitionist movements
gptkbp:legalStatus protection against discrimination
set precedent for future civil rights legislation
equal treatment in federal courts
equal treatment in public accommodations
gptkbp:notableEvent Homestead Act
Morrill Act
gptkbp:operates gptkb:Federal_Government
gptkbp:purpose to protect the civil rights of individuals
gptkbp:relatedEvent Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction Era
gptkbp:relatedPatent social justice
human rights
civil liberties
equality before the law
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:signature gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln
gptkbp:significance first federal law to define and protect civil rights
gptkbp:supportedBy gptkb:Republican_Party
gptkbp:targets freedmen
gptkbp:yearEstablished July 2, 1862