African Americans - Presidents 1868-1921
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- Created on: 15-05-17 12:08
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- Presidents after Andrew Johnson up to 1920s
- 1. Ulysses S. Grant
- Worked wiith Congress 1869 to 1875 to pursue black rights
- Authorised suspension of habeus corpus to use against KKK quickly after election in 1868
- 2. Rutherford Hayes
- Following disputed 1876 presidential election, Feb 1877, bargain struck between Hayes and reps of South Carolina and Louisiana
- They would cast vote for Hayes, who would 'give to the people of the States of South Carolina and Louisiana the right to control their own affairs'
- This compromise of 1977 ended period of Congressional Reconstruction
- Troops were withdrawn and Southern states would be able to ignore Reconstruction legislation
- Rights of states in South to deal with AAs as local issue was restored to position that it had been in 1865, at time of Black Codes
- Progress towards civil rights was reversed when Congress and president accepted view, expressed in one Northern magazine in 1895 that 'the ***** will withdraw from the field of national politics'
- Woodrow Wilson
- White supremacist
- Believed black people should be segregated and kept in an inferior position
- Removed all black advisers in White House
- 1. Ulysses S. Grant
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