... but blacks still suffered. "When [Congress] convened in December 1865, it refused to seat the delegates of the ex-Confederate states . . . [and] Republicans prepared to dismantle the black codes (Boyer, et al. 503)." The radical ideas of the Radical Republicans clashed with President Johnson's envisionment of Reconstruction; whereas Johnson carried out a lenient plan to admit the South into the Union, Radical ... before the Civil Rights Movement was that of the innocence and even necessity of segregation, embodied in Plessy vs. Ferguson. Eventually Plessy was overturned in the landmark Su...

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