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The Civil Rights bill continues to make its way through the Houses and the Dispatch is certain that the President will sign it into law despite the…

The Dispatch anticipates the veto of the proposed Civil Rights bill that makes its way through the Houses. The Dispatch also praises Johnson for…

The proposed Civil Rights bill receives a veto from President Johnson but the House and Senate resist Johnson's effort. The two houses of Congress…

Conservatives at the Dispatch remain worried about the Radical takeover occurring in the government. The Dispatch believes "they intend to hold…

Even after the end of the war, tensions between northerners and southerners remain high. Northern papers such as the New York Tribune look to condemn…

Important decisions to be made are debated and slow to be agreed upon. The South opposes the Reconstruction plan of the Radicals, deciding it…

Radicals and Southerners maintain an ongoing dispute over Reconstruction policies. Southerners have confidence in Johnson and his ability to restore…

Tension between Johnson and the Radical Republicans heats up, and neither side of the political spectrum is willing to give in. Johnson makes efforts…

Blacks start to unite more frequently and protest injustices. Through establishing their own churches, fighting segregation at railroads and churches,…

White Richmonders claim to be struggling under the burden of the new city tax in addition to heavy federal and state taxes. They remember their fallen…