ROBERT BROWN ELLIOTT

Robert Brown Elliott, Esq., who was born in Liverpool , England migrated to America in 1867, after the Civil War, after attending law school in England. Robert Elliott Brown was one of our greatest politicians ever . He wrote the great Civil Rights Act of 1875 that the United States Supreme Court overturned in 1883’s regressive “Civil Rights Cases” decision that legally legitimated racial segregation in public transportation, accommodations, theaters, long before Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Robert Brown Elliott, Esq., was also a sponsor of the Klu Klux Klan Act of 1871. It is now known as 42 U.S. C. 1983, the strongest piece of civil rights legislation ever enacted; since it enabled the eradication of the Klu Klux Klan in South Carolina, attorney Elliott’s home state from 1870’s to 1915, when it resurfaced during Woodrow Wilson’s terms.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Elliott?fbclid=IwAR1GGICzcsiIGHGU_hpqHX-oFZY3rSmwK4TXr_lhJ1sYRJ5X1_u6s3r3k5k https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Cases