dollars and imprisoned not more than ten years, and
shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to any office, or place
of honor, profit or trust created by the Constitution or laws of
the United States.

Other statutes referred to but not so vital were:

_Section 1977._ All persons within the jurisdiction of the United
States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to
make and enforce contracts, to sue the parties, give evidence,
and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for
the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white
citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains,
penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to
no other.

_Section 1978._ All citizens of the United States shall have the
same right in every State and territory, as is enjoyed by white
citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and
convey real and personal property.

_Section 1979._ Every person who, under color of any statute,
ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or
Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of
the United States or other persons within the jurisdiction
thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or
immunities, secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable
to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or
other proper proceeding for redress.

_Section 5510._ Every person who, under color of any law,
statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, subjects or causes to
be subjected, any inhabitant of any State or Territory to the
deprivation of any right, privilege, or immunities, secured or
protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States or to
different punishments, pains or penalties, on account of such
inhabitants being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race,
than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be
punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by
imprisonment not more than one year, or by both.

The decision in this case was in substance that Congress cannot make
it an offense against the United States for individuals to combine or
conspire to prevent even by force, citizens of African descent, solely
because of their race, from earning a living, although the right to