Nebraska Civil Rights Law (1885)

Title: Nebraska Civil Rights Law (1885)
Description: This law states that every person in the state of Nebraska should be granted equal ability to enjoy public spaces. Those who deny someone their ability to enjoy a public space will be charged with a misdemeanor and fined between $25 and $100.
Date: 1885
Author: Nebraska. Legislature
Legal Concept: Civil Rights; Race
Subject: African Americans
Temporal Coverage: Territorial Expansion; Gilded Age; Jim Crow Era; Long Civil Rights Movement; Exclusion Era
Spatial Coverage: Nebraska; Midwest
Document Type: Legal Code
Document Category: Primary Source
Bluebook Citation: 1885 Neb. Laws, ch. 15, p. 501
Bibliographic Citation: Guy A. Brown and Hiland H. Wheeler, eds. The Compiled Statutes of the State of Nebraska, 1881. Thirteenth Edition. State Journal Company, 1907.
Contributor: History 115 Student (Fall 2025); Cecily Lawton

Title: Nebraska Civil Rights Law (1885)
Description: This law states that every person in the state of Nebraska should be granted equal ability to enjoy public spaces. Those who deny someone their ability to enjoy a public space will be charged with a misdemeanor and fined between $25 and $100.
Date: 1885
Author: Nebraska. Legislature
Legal Concept: Civil Rights; Race
Subject: African Americans
Temporal Coverage: Territorial Expansion; Gilded Age; Jim Crow Era; Long Civil Rights Movement; Exclusion Era
Spatial Coverage: Nebraska; Midwest
Document Type: Legal Code
Document Category: Primary Source
Bluebook Citation: 1885 Neb. Laws, ch. 15, p. 501
Bibliographic Citation: Guy A. Brown and Hiland H. Wheeler, eds. The Compiled Statutes of the State of Nebraska, 1881. Thirteenth Edition. State Journal Company, 1907.
Contributor: History 115 Student (Fall 2025); Cecily Lawton

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