CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICA.

Evening Star, Issue 3849, 25 June 1875, Page 3

CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICA.

A matter exciting considerable attention a . ?Y er ®^ es the effects of the Civil iughts Bill which was lately made the law ot the land, conferring on the colored population the same privileges as “ white folks” as to places of amusement, &c Originally at every “show” a certain portion of the house was allotted for the colored gentry, and to no other place were they allowed to go, By the Bill this regulation has been rapealed and it has been made a penal action to deny them admission to.any place they like to pay for. A gentleman writing recently from Richmond, Virginia State states that several serious disturbances have occurred in the Richmond theatre on account of negroes demanding equal rights with the white people. A few evenings back a gentleman named H. Cecil Bad purchased a ticket and gave it to a mulato woman of ill repute, and with it she went .to the dress circle. After she had left,. a gentleman in a saloon near the theatre offered 500dol. “to know who had bought the ticket for that creature.* On Mr Ball stating that he bad done so, he was promptly knocked down, and afterwards compelled to fly, fearing rough usage from those assembled. Few if any who are not familiar with the customs of {southern society, can imagine the connequencea this gentleman has brought upon himself by that act. It has ostracised him from society. No Southern lady or child will speak to him, and men avoid him as if he were a leper, while young men, his former associates, jeer him as they pass him in the streets. In many of the Southern States several places of amusement have had to close their doors, the respectable portion, of community declining to attend while a \ aw was forced on managers. The Bui has been the cause of reviving the bitter enmity engendered between the white acd the black people during the late American war.