In many ways the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was the last hurrah of Republican Radicals. Individual Radicals would remain active; there would be occasional attempts to enact “force bills” to implement the civil rights legislation of Reconstruction and secure freedmen their rights, but the splintering of the old Radicals into liberal Republicans, Stalwarts, and antimonopolists signaled that other issues had taken precedence and that new alliances were emerging.
