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. . . On Sunday April 18, my father and I left in an automobile about 5:30 A.M. enroute to a place about ten miles from Uvalde (Texas). We reached Uvalde about 8:30 A.M. and stopped at the Dinette Café on West Main Street. My father stayed in the car and he told me to go into the restaurant and see if they had good coffee to drink. I was wearing the uniform of a soldier in the Army of the United States. When I entered the waitress told me that she did not serve Mexicans. I reported this to my father and he asked the girl if they were not selling coffee to a soldier in the armed forces of the United States merely because he was of Mexican descent. The waitress said that she was sorry but they were not selling anything to Mexicans.
–excerpt from a deposition given by Army Private Manuel Sandoval, Jr., in 1943 during his service in World War II
The waitress’s behavior toward Private Sandoval would be illegal under which law?
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the Fourteenth Amendment
the Fourteenth Amendment
the Civil Rights Act of 1964
the Civil Rights Act of 1964
the Fifteenth Amendment
the Fifteenth Amendment
the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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