How Did The Radical Movement Influence The Civil Rights Movement

The Radical new the federal government was playing to big of a role in the states, however, some felt direct intervention in state affairs and laws designed to protect the blacks. Many believed in the had the right to compete in a free-labor economy and Congress extended the Freedman’s Bureau and began work on a Civil Rights Bill. President Johnson vetoed the Freedman’s Bureau Bill, saying it would bloat the government and he also vetoed the Civil Rights Bill, denying black have the same rights of property and whites. Johnson was pretty much a racist, event though the Radicals overturned Johnson’s Civil Rights Act veto. The first to piece of legislation to be overturned in history at the time, and Radical hoped it would enforce rights. The