Lincoln’s successor, Democrat Andrew Johnson, vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and strongly resisted the passage of the 14th Amendment, which ensured equal rights and protections under the ...

Civil Rights Act of 1866 The year after the end of the American ... the pace of desegregation has been quite uneven and 46 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act many metropolitan areas ...

For example, in 1866 ... the rights of African Americans in the South. What did the nineteenth-century civil rights legislation try to accomplish? Eric Foner: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 ...