Police would also gp to gatherings of black soldiers and arrest any black woman at the party for prostitution. But Stanton couldn't DO anything because Johnson wouldn't let him. Then on May 1st, a fight between cops and soldiers resulted in mob violence.
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Johnson would serve for 2 more years, during which time the KKK ran rampant throughout the South. In 1870, and 1871, as soon as Johnson was out of office, Congress passed the Enforcement Acts, also known as the KKK acts which made racial terrorists a crime. But it was too late.
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You see, those people who had lynched blacks, those Klansmen, those former Confederate soldiers had become Southern heroes. And not only did Southern Blacks not get reparations, they had to live in fear.
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But that is not the important thing about Johnson's tenure
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Every Democrat acquitted Johnson but so did 10 Republicans. They were not radical republicans. They were moderates. The moderate Republicans were led by a man named Lyman Turnbull. Lyman's friends thought that Thaddeus Stevens and his squad were too radical
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And so they saved Johnson. But Lyman's moderate homies also battled Thad n'em for something else They EACH wrote their own version of the Fourteenth Amendment Lyman and the moderates won. To be fair, Thaddeus Stevens' radical version was a lot like Lyman's except for one part
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See Thaddeus Stevens didn't want to pass the 13th amendment, which banned slavery He didn't like the 14th amendment making slaves citizens. He didn't like the 15th Amendment giving people the right to vote.
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In fact, he and his boys spent the last part of their lives trying to get the word "white" removed from all federal laws. But Johnson didn't like this version of the constitutional amendment. Some people thought that this was why Stevens hated Johnson and vice versa.
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But if Stevens' version would have passed, there would have never been a need for a Civil Rights Act in 1965. There wouldn't have been a need for a Voting Rights Act. Or a 14th or 15th amendment. or 19th Segregation would have never existed and Jim Crow couldn't have happened.
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Aside from banning slavery, Steven's version of the 13th Amendment had one extra clause that scared the fuck out of the moderates and angered Johnson. He didn't think there was ANY way that those Southern States would agree to one extra sentence
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Everyone who hears the sentence would SWEAR its in the Constitution, but it's not. It never has been. People have been fighting for years to get it included. It's SEVEN WORDS
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This sentence STILL isn't in the Constitution but Stevens' words are actually included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It's why we still have to pass laws against LGBT discrimination and hate crimes, but it was proposed in 150 years ago BEFORE slavery was outlawed
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Some people say the first impeachment actually started on Feb. 8, 1864, when Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens, who almost impeached Andrew Johnson, submitted a constitutional amendment that could've forever eliminated slavery, segregation & discrimination:
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"All persons are equal before the law."
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