Black activists saw POTUS Andrew Johnson as an obstacle to be removed. According to historian Douglas Egerton modern studies mistakenly place impeachment at the center of their story when POTUS was just one of many road blocks to take down on the way to liberty and democracy.
Black voters assassinated while casting ballots, local cracker cops seizing guns of USCT heroes while white supremacists grabbed their land, Black neighborhoods burnt to the ground; corpses of lynched US loyalists hung in courthouse squares: Andrew Johnson was was more of an existential threat Trump is.
#history #uspol #politics
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