Talk:Civil Rights Act of 1866/Archive 1

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I have to wonder about this being the first presidential veto overridden in U.S. history...see http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0801767.html which lists several under Tyler and Pierce.

Yes, Wikipedia's presidential veto page also lists one for Tyler and several for Pierce. At least one page is wrong. 69.19.2.225 01:55, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Arabs?
Yes, of course Arabs are protected, but why are they specifically mentioned here? Is there a particular court case that says so and cites this law? Otherwise, Arabs shouldn't be specifically mentioned and simply be implied by the other protected races.

97.113.68.147 (talk) 20:02, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Private discrimination
It's not all clear to me from the legislative text as quoted in the article that the 1866 CRA banned, or was intended to ban, private racial discrimination. If that is to be listed as a long range consequence, that needs to be sourced, and text needs to be inserted about how civil rights law has greatly expanded from its original form of protecting the right to engage in VOLUNTARY contracts, to sue, to give evidence in court, etc. ShiroiC (talk) 03:06, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Last civil rights veto until Reagan
There's this unsourced sentence in the lead of this article (not repeated in the body of the article): "The next veto of a civil rights act did not come until President Ronald Reagan vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988, which was also overridden." This seems incorrect. Johnson later had these vetoes:

July 16, 1866 - H.R. 613. To continue in force and to amend an act entitled “An act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees,” and for other purposes. Regular veto. Veto overridden by the House (103-33) and the Senate (33-12).

July 20, 1867 - S. 137. For the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia. Pocket veto.

December 20, 1867 - S. 141. For the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia. Pocket veto.

Ulysses S. Grant had this veto:

March 3, 1871 - S.J. Res. 295. Relating to rights of actual settlers upon certain lands in Iowa. Pocket veto.

Theodore Roosevelt had this veto:

s. 5473. Amending section 1998 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and to authorize the Secretary of the Navy in certain cases to mitigate or remit the loss of rights of citizenship imposed by law upon deserters from naval service.

Gerald Ford had these vetoes:

H.R. 5900. To protect the economic rights of labor in the building and construction industry by providing for equal treatment of craft and industrial workers. Vetoed January 2, 1976. The veto message was laid before the House and printed as H. Doc. 94-329. (122 Cong. Rec. 145). Veto unchallenged

H.R. 8617. To restore to the Federal civilian and postal service employees their rights to participate voluntarily, as private citizens, in the political process of the Nation, to protect such employees from improper solicitations.

Anythingyouwant (talk) 21:54, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

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