... between whites and newly freed African Americans. The period of reconstruction demanded that African Americans were given their freedom, civil rights, and the opportunity for economic freedom, education and the right to vote. These ideas of African American equality, that most talked about. Aspects of radical reconstruction, and violence were one of the means used to undermine Reconstruction. "The reason for this is that the ... of a system where they were thrown into the bottom of the social classes with no legal status." (Wood, pg.141) During this time there was a center of violence tha...

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