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General John Logan Demands that Seven Republican Senators Who Voted Against Impeachment Be Expelled from Party
At the same time that the Johnson Impeachment was going on, Republicans were assembling in Chicago for their National Convention. On May 19, 1868 General…
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Mississippi Republicans Demand Racial Equality in 1869 Party Platform
When the Mississippi Republican Party met in July 1869 to consider its new platform, it was one of the first political party conventions in American…
In May 1869 Republican Refugees Fled to Atlanta
Increasing violence in 1868 and 1869 led some white Republicans to flee the Southern countryside for the protection of Federal garrisons. This story recounts the…
The Black Republican Party in Georgia Organized in May 1867 by African Americans
While the influential white supremacist historian of Reconstruction William Dunning often presented African Americans in the South as the ignorant tools of Northern whites, in…
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