James Lee Dickey: An Analysis of One African-American's Leadership in Jim Crow Texas

Johnson's Plan

After Lincoln’s assassination, President Andrew Johnson, had no intention of granting equality to the freed slaves in the South. A Tennessean, Johnson felt only the landowners could keep the freedmen under control. His Reconstruction plan reinstated black servitude through low wages that would keep the freed slaves second-class citizens. He did not even object when some of the returning states violated his own Reconstruction plan by refusing to ratify the 13th amendment and when they enacted discriminatory Black Codes.
 

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