You all should have known that the tweet was sensational bullshyt, because Grant created the Justice Department to fight the Ku Klux Klan and his proposed civil rights legislation during his presidency in the 1860s and 1870s is what would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1965. For what it is worth Grant wanted the DR as a naval base of operations in the Caribbean for the USA., which the USA later got with Puerto Rico under Roosevelt.
Grant never intended to send African Americans to the Dominican Republic. He wanted to give African Americans in the South an option of staying there or going to the Dominican Republic. Grant felt that if African Americans had the option of leaving then it would force Whites in the South to negotiate with Black people to improve conditions so that Black people would not have to face discrimination and violence in the South. This is information from the University of Virginia Miller Center:
Annexing Santo Domingo
One of Grant's failed initiatives in foreign policy involved the Caribbean nation of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic). For many years, the U.S. Navy had wanted a base in the Caribbean to house its operations. Santo Domingo had a suitable bay, and its government was interested in having the United States annex the country. The President was also interested in the island nation because it presented black Americans with an alternative to staying in the South and facing discrimination and violence. He believed that blacks would be in a better position to negotiate with Southern whites about improving working conditions if they could chose to leave the South and immigrate to Santo Domingo. Although Secretary of State Fish did not support annexing Santo Domingo, he agreed to send Grant's private secretary to the country to assess the situation. After his secretary returned with a report favoring annexation, Grant spoke with Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner, chair of the foreign relations committee, to gain his support. The two men had always been uneasy allies and their talk left Grant with the impression—incorrect, as it turned out—that Sumner would support annexation. However, when the President presented the relevant treaty to the Senate in 1870, Sumner spoke out against it and withheld his support. In the end, it failed to pass the Senate. However, Grant was unwilling to give up. He persuaded enough senators and representatives to support a fact-finding commission of three men that would explore the situation in Santo Domingo. Although the commission recommended annexation, public opinion had turned against the treaty, and the issue disappeared from public debate.
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The
Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called the
Enforcement Act or the
Force Act, was a
United States federal law enacted during the
Reconstruction era in response to civil rights violations against
African Americans. The bill was passed by the
43rd United States Congress and signed into law by
United States President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1875. The act was designed to "protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights", providing for equal treatment in
public accommodations and public transportation and prohibiting exclusion from
jury service. It was originally drafted by Senator
Charles Sumner in 1870, but was not passed until shortly after Sumner's death in 1875. The law was not effectively enforced, partly because President Grant had favored different measures to help him suppress election-related violence against blacks and
Republicans in the
Southern United States.
The Reconstruction era ended with the resolution of the
1876 presidential election, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was the last federal civil rights law enacted until the passage of
Civil Rights Act of 1957. In 1883, the
Supreme Court ruled in the
Civil Rights Cases that the public accommodation sections of the act were unconstitutional, saying Congress was not afforded control over private persons or corporations under the
Equal Protection Clause. Parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 were later re-adopted in the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the
Civil Rights Act of 1968, both of which cited the
Commerce Clause as the source of Congress's power to regulate private actors.
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