Posted by Peaches on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 4:19pm.
"Johnson now began to argue that African American men should only be given the vote when they were able to pass some type of literacy test. He advised William Sharkey, the governor of Mississippi, that he should only "extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars."
-- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjohnsonA.htm
http://www.andrewjohnson.com/05AJFirstVetoes/iiia-10.htm
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:YB-PxzQq6ogJ:wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/107/109768/ch16_a2_d1.pdf+andrew+johnson+the+civil+rights+bill+of+1866&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg6NGFvm2T5HnAIqSHX5Ze8Oc4j3oV83KbDcY-H3W7xzLuz8sP1FL8VBYBHqgWMJvDsP7FC79X9z7cu0M7ccYHMDHFif-7UCUFuyqB2909biCFxBpX8R4PMdf1f0jBICVcoq8Hw&sig=AHIEtbTcoMlKCu3JS5n9ER7KnDtNgOHRmg
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