ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: July 19, 1867 Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew
Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans " If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.
"Andrew Johnson
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WOW!! so how do you really feel about my people Mr. President? My slave ancestors were splay-footed, bandy-shanked and hump-backed from picking cotton and cutting sugar cane in your fields, to make America one of the richest countries in the world. If that doesn't qualify us to be equal to any poor ... View More
