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re: University of Alabama system to review all building names, remove Confederate Army plaques
Posted on 6/10/20 at 11:09 pm to TideWarrior
Posted on 6/10/20 at 11:09 pm to TideWarrior
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Another note for those unaware East TN tried to leave TN and join the Union but was unsuccessful. Slavery was not supported in the area that was made up mostly of German, Scotch, and Irish families. Everyone in my family with the exception of one fought for the north during the war. Andrew Johnson is from there as well.
Johnson may have been loyal to the Union and opposed to slavery, but he was a virulent racist. He spent his entire presidency blocking Republican legislation to grant basic civil rights to freedmen. He dedicated his political career to fighting black citizenship, voting rights, property ownership rights and helping southern states reestablish the same social, political, and legal structure as it had prior to the civil war, except for slavery. Even his own cabinet hated him.
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Posted on 6/11/20 at 6:28 am to Evolved Simian
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Johnson may have been loyal to the Union and opposed to slavery, but he was a virulent racist. He spent his entire presidency blocking Republican legislation to grant basic civil rights to freedmen. He dedicated his political career to fighting black citizenship, voting rights, property ownership rights and helping southern states reestablish the same social, political, and legal structure as it had prior to the civil war, except for slavery. Even his own cabinet hated him.
All of this.
The death of Lincoln and Johnson assuming the presidency played a massive role in the failures of postwar reconstruction.
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