In its initial rulings on racial discrimination and the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court seemed to differentiate between private and official (state-sponsored) discrimination.

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The Supreme Court's early rulings, such as the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, distinguished between state-sponsored discrimination, which the Fourteenth Amendment could address, and private discrimination, which it could not.

In Its Initial Rulings on Racial Discrimination and the Fourteenth