‘Kill the last damned one:’ The Memphis Race Massacre Exactly one year after the end of the Civil War, on April 9, 1866, ...

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Johnson decided that the Southern states were only required to swear fealty to the Union and incorporate the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, into their state constitutions -- all else was up ...