In a decision combining five cases, the Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional. The Act guaranteed “full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theatres, and other places of public amusement…to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.” The ruling, eventually overturned in Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (1968), held that the Federal government was not empowered by the 13th or 14th Amendments to punish racist acts committed by private citizens.