You do realize that it was a Republican Congress that overrode a Democratic President in order to approve the civil rights act of 1866? The republican congress was also the ones that impeached President Johnson. The Democrats were not your friends at that time
A Republican-dominated Congress enacted a landmark Civil Rights Act on this day in 1866, overriding a veto by President Andrew Johnson.
www.politico.com
A Republican-dominated Congress enacted a landmark Civil Rights Act on this day in 1866, overriding a veto by President Andrew Johnson. The law’s chief thrust was to offer protection to slaves freed in the aftermath of the Civil War. It sought to negate the so-called Black Codes in the South, which undermined the end of slavery, as mandated by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. .