Reconstruction is a time marked by many positive reforms in the favor of the African American community as well as one met by strong resistance from the people of the South. This document from The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism by various authors details the progress made by freedmen and how they went about achieving this. This excerpt discusses many events in which African Americans protested for their rights, such as sit-ins and strikes, demonstrating to the reader that they had to use various means to achieve higher levels of social, political, and economic equality due to resistance primarily from the South. In this reading, a civil rights march is also discussed. This march took place in New Orleans and was met with strong and violent