Even the lauded Abraham Lincoln advocated for the removal of freed Blacks, and made several attempts at it [2], and in the Douglas-Lincoln debates said: I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. [3]
(His opponent, Stephen Douglas, was even more opposed to the idea.)
[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h490t.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_slavery#Co...
[3] Basler, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II, pp. 235-236
We are at a point now where passing laws as were passed during the civil rights movement is completely unthinkable. Even laws advancing equality that were passed in the late 20th century are pretty unthinkable in today's environment. There revanchist movement has control of the government, the media, and much of society.