Andrew Johnson ... ever to be impeached. "Johnson embodied this sort of common white man resentment of the planter class, but also had this distrust and often fear of Black people," said Aaron ...

"We aren't celebrating Andrew Johnson, because essentially he's a character in a Black story. We have to center the Black experience when we educate people on this day," Isom said. According to ...

and ensured a full century of disenfranchisement for black Americans. The video above makes the case that Andrew Johnson is inarguably America’s worst president.

I agreed with most of James Jirousek’s commentary about our dishonored presidents except his belief that Andrew ... a black delegation that he feared a race war if blacks had the vote. Johnson ...

About 150 years ago, as Congress prepared to impeach President Andrew Johnson ... police officers slaughtered dozens of black activists in New Orleans, Johnson ridiculously blamed “the radical ...

On March 4, 1865, Andrew ... Johnson's combative mentality did not change. In her biography of Johnson, Gordon-Reed also records an instance where the president declared to a delegation of ...

On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson ... the Civil War. Johnson’s deep antipathy toward black people ...