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title: "Why did President Johnson veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866?"  
description: "Why did President Johnson veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866?"  
author: "Howard fuller"  
published: 2018-04-15  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41114/why-did-president-johnson-veto-the-civil-rights-act-of-1866  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why did President Johnson veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866? 

Why did [President Johnson](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41836/what-did-defense-secretary-mcnamara-and-general-westmoreland-advise-president-johnson-to-do-to-win-the-war-in-vietnam) [veto](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/98922/why-did-austria-use-veto-to-block-romania-to-enter-schengen) the [Civil Rights](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41821/why-was-jackie-robinson-an-important-figure-in-the-struggle-for-civil-rights) Act of 1866? \
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