Violence And Inequality: The Effect On Andrew Johnson's Plan Of Reconstruction

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Violence and inequality were seen in race-ethnicity, class, gender, and war. Inequality and violence has been constantly seen throughout history and continues to be seen today. Black Americans were constantly tortured, enslaved, discriminated, shot, lynched, segregated, and embarrassed by white Americans. For many years, black Americans were not allowed to associate with white such as relationships, buses, military, schools, and work. They were not allowed to vote either, “During 1865, Andrew Johnson put into effect his own plan of Reconstruction, establishing procedures whereby new governments, elected by white voters only, would be created in the South.” Black Americans were not the only experiencing inequality and violence, Mexicans, Filipinos,