The Seventh Amendment to the Civil Rights Act

Common law courts awarded money damages the plaintiff was able to prove. Equity courts usually gave functions, orders, and there were no juries in equity courts. The biggest backers of the civil rights act were very concerned a that if jury trials were required,. This was back before the voting rigts act of 19 ie. In many places in the south, african americans were not they were not registered to vote. They couldn't get registered. And so there was no right to a jury trial but yhou also no right to emotional distress damages.