What president has actually done the most for black people
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Antwon Mitchell
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I agree.I am always confused as to how no one sees this President as having done more for Black people and Civil Rights than any President in American History.
HIs strong record helping African Americans and implementing Civil Rights began even before he was President.
In fact Lyndon Johnson's passage of the Civil Right Act was nothing more than the completion of what began under this President during the Reconstruction Era 80 years earlier. I am completely surprised that President Grant is not more well known among African Americans. He oversaw the Reconstruction era in the USA, which was the time that African Americans had rapid advancement in the USA and it was the only time before the modern era that African Americans had so many elective offices, including in the South. He oversaw the passage of the 15th Amendment. He created the U.S. Justice Department for purposes of overseeing the Civil Rights of African Americans. He crushed the KKK. On and on and on. Grant is by far the president that did the most for Black people.
Hell even as a General he used African American troops to fight against the Confederates, when other Generals were against it. That is how the United States Colored Troops (USCTs) came to fight in the Civil War beginning as far back as 1863.
This guy was amazing. His parents were abolitionists. He ended up getting married to a woman that owned slaves. He freed the slave that she gave him, even though he was probably broker than the slave that he ended up freeing.
Ulysses S. Grant
Justice Department is created, June 23, 1870
Ulysses S. Grant & the 15th Amendment (U.S. National Park Service)
Grant signs KKK Act into law, April 20, 1871
Grant, Reconstruction and the KKK | American Experience | PBS
March 1, 1875: Grant signs the Civil Rights Act
Ulysses S. Grant is probably the only president in history to actually recognize white terrorism for what it is as only a danger to black ppl but America itself...might be why he hardly gets any recognition, knowing how America for much of its existence has been lenient towards white domestic terrorism.
I did not know Grant personally, but he was very advanced even by today's standards. Lincoln was more racist than Grant.
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I'm starting to realize that most of the president's they laud as heroes were shytty. My AP teacher called Andrew Jackson one of the greatest presidents while admitting he was a blatant racist and I was like
Grant is up there but unfortunately most of those accomplishments didn’t last once he was out of office and reconstruction ended
very underrated president
very underrated president
If that is the criteria that you are using then Lyndon Johnson and Abraham Lincoln should not be up there either. After Johnson left office the Republicans with the help of the Democrats have been on a 50 year spree of rolling back the Civil Rights of Black people. Hell the police are still shooting unarmed Black people in the streets and the Justice Department has been neutered to the point that the shootings are not even investigated despite the fact that the shootings are clearly racially motivated.
After Lincoln was assassinated Andrew Johnson went about the process of creating a semi-slave caste in this country, where Black people were basically forced back into slavery. That is why Johnson was impeached and Grant became President.
Now if you want to focus on Presidents that enacted Civil Rights legislation and executive orders that were not overturned then you have to look at Presidents like Truman and Eisenhower. Both of those Presidents had significant Civil Rights actions as well that have stood the test of time; most notably desegregating the military and public schools. However, unless I missed them I don't see Truman or Eisenhower on this listing either.
i agree about lincoln and to an extent about LBJ. only difference i think is with LBJ some of the legislation took decades for them to strip down. like the VRA lasted till 2012. so it had more time to make an impact. with Grant it was more like a matter of years before the southern democrats had completely reversed reconstruction.
Eisenhowers SCOTUS nominations like Warren and Brennan had a big impact too
Grant's shadow over Civil Rights is larger than people realize. Grant oversaw the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 or the enforcement act. Some of the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 that were readopted by Congress during the Civil Rights Movement as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, 1964 and 1968.
"The 1875 act was designed to "protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights", provide for equal treatment in public accommodations and public transportation and prohibiting exclusion from jury service." That is basically what was passed by Lyndon Johnson about 80 years later. It was first passed by Grant, but after he left Office the South blocked it's enforcement.
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T’Challa’s Heir
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Lincoln
Grant
Lbj
JFK
Obama/Clinton
Grant
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JFK
Obama/Clinton
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Grant, Lincoln, LBJ.
Read up on Grant, what he accomplished during Reconstruction and what he wanted to do.
Read up on Grant, what he accomplished during Reconstruction and what he wanted to do.
Overall?
Lincoln
Lincoln
dont get me wrong he definitely did a lot compared to almost all presidents. i think hes top three easily
I am not giving whites an award for doing what they were supposed to do. To answer the question, none. Most of the things that these presidents have "done" for Black folks started within our own community. They recognized our achievements.
You can argue lyndon baines johnson
