John Boehner, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, called it "thought crimes" legislation and "radical social policy."

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

But Johnson refused to stand aside in the face of radical attempts to seize all powers of government.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Otherwise,he said, there might come a time when an angry public would demand radical and sweeping changes.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

There was no money for rebuilding. To add to all these problems, radical Republicans in Washington were demanding severe punishment for the South.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

By eighteen seventy-one, radical Republican congressmen were demanding a new law to destroy the Ku Klux Klan.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

These same laws and other actions of the radical Republicans changed the South in other less desirable,ways.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

They said the federal government should not help radical Republicans stay in power in the south.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

They were tried in federal courts. Juries were made up mainly of blacks and radical whites.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

After the Civil War, most southern states were governed by radical members of the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

In eighteen sixty-eight, radical members of the Republican Party held a trial in the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

One way radical Republicans gained support was by helping give blacks the right to vote.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

In return, Hayes agreed to end federal support of radical Republican governments in the south.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Not surprisingly, radical Republicans held firm control in every one of the new governments.

VOA: special.2010.02.04