thus lynchings flourished, the ku klux klan became the group to join and discrimination, torture and murder became the standard way to treat freed blacks. and what I wanna know is who are the descendents of andrew johnson? I know they exist somewhere, it was only 100 years ago.The second worst mistake, the survey found, was Andrew Johnson's decision just after the Civil War to side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery.
"We continue to pay" for Johnson's errors, wrote Michael Les Benedict, an Ohio State University history professor emeritus.
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grand and great+ grandchildren should still be alive. probably sitting somewhere cuddling slave money profits! 
and sadly it would take another Johnson (Lyndon) 100+ years later to attempt positive changes.