In frequent speeches and interviews, Johnson publicly expressed his defiance of the Radical Republicans. They knew that their program for reconstruction of the South could not succeed with Andrew ...

July 31: President Andrew Johnson tells Ulysses S ... In a back-room political deal, the Republicans agree to abandon Reconstruction policies in exchange for the presidency.

There's political equality ... the summer of 1865 and into the fall of 1866 -- allowed to fruition by Andrew Johnson's administration -- the black codes were laws passed... to control and restrict ...

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic ... the people and the new president, Andrew Johnson, were with them. They had not watched the country bleed simply to reunite it, unmended ...

On New Year’s Day, Mayor Brandon Johnson welcomed 2025 ... In other January texts, the mayor told political allies the city was undergoing a new Reconstruction era, an allusion to the period ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the president's assassination. Conflicts ...