The old Confederacy, like Freddy Krueger, is trying to rise from the dead and slash our nation with its "superstition, ambition and ignorance."
Prior to 1965, the only American president to have both promoted and presided over a multiracial democracy was Ulysses Grant, the former general in Lincoln's army who became president when impeached Southern slaveowner Andrew Johnson's term expired on March 4, 1869.
Grant (and Johnson, but grudgingly) saw freed African Americans not only voting but taking political office by the hundreds. It lasted until the day Grant left office, when the Tilden/Hayes election
"compromise" of 1876 ended the period known as Radical Reconstruction the following year.
During this brief time, more than 600 African Americans were elected to state legislatures (the majority in South Carolina and Louisiana) and 16 served in the US House of Representatives.
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-Thom
