The reconstruction was supposed to be a time of peace, and rebuilding America after the civil war, it was for from that. It started even more racism. The black people wanted equal rights because they finally got free from slavery, and were not treated well. They got the worst of the worst. When they got food, education, housing, and basic needs, they got it, it was just the worst of it, which did not make it much better. They were not allowed to vote in elections, and they had segregation, whites and blacks could not be together. My evidence is from source 4 the Jim Crow Laws “It shall be unlawful for a negro and a white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.” This showed that
