The University of No Football; Home of the Osprey; Also known as The University of North Florida. It is a relatively good school in Jacksonville, Florida that has NO FOOTBALL TEAM.
As one Supreme Court justice would write in 1965, vagrancy-related laws made it legal to stand on a street corner âonly at the whim of any police officer.â. Second, vagrancy laws made it a crime to be a certain type of personâanyone who fit the description of one of those colorful Elizabethan characters. Where most American laws required people to do something criminal before they could be arrested, vagrancy laws emphatically did not.
The Civil Rights Act of 1875. Image courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Before entering Congress in 1873, Representative James Rapier of Alabama worked as a newspaperman, a cotton planter, and as a state civil servant. On this date, the House passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by a vote of 162 to 99. First introduced by one of Congressâs greatest advocates for black civil rights, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, in 1870, the original bill outlawed racial discrimination in juries, schools, transportation, and public accommodations.