During the Reconstruction period, there were many incidents involving the Ku Klux Klan killing many African Americans and even whites. The Ku Klux Klan were fighting an ongoing terrorist campaign against reconstruction governments and local leaders. (Faragher, et al, p. 335). In October 1870, after republicans carried Laurens County in South Carolina, bands of white people drove 150 African Americans from their homes and murdered thirteen black and white Republican activists. In March 1871, three African Americans were arrested in Meridian, Mississippi for giv

During the period from 1865- 1900, there were many forms of inequality and although there were many forms of resistance to those forms of inequality, the most popular form of resistance was, however, to fight back; the African Americans eventually went on strikes and boycotts, the native Americans fought back with violence. The law, however, was another form of resistance; there were several new laws incorporated into effect after many riots had broken out. Even to this day, there are still many forms of inequality. Although it is not spoken out –right, there is still tension between men and women, and also between different races. We are still fighting for equality, and if we continue fighting for equality, we will one day achieve.

A system of convict labor also thrived in the South. Coal mines and public work projects of all kinds employed disciplinary methods and created living and working conditions reminiscent of slavery. African Americans made up ninety percent of the convict work force. (Faragher, et al, p. 375). The convict workers were transported and housed like animals- chained together by day and confined in portable cages by night- these workers suffered high mortality rates.

Large-scale war erupted in 1864. Since all treaties with tribes in eastern Colorado were terminated, territorial governor John Evans encouraged a group of white civilians, the Colorado Volunteers, to stage raids through Cheyenne campgrounds. Looking for protection, Chief Black Kettle brought a band of 800 Cheyennes to a U.S. fort and received orders to set up camp at Sand Cree

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