How have major Supreme Court rulings impacted civil rights?

1883: The Civil Rights Cases: A series of cases where the Supreme Court was called upon to interpret the 13th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution. ... 1964: The Supreme Court upheld the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in public accommodations such as hotel rooms

the two colonies had the earliest laws mandating religious tolerance.

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.