By the Fall of 1865, How Did Many Freedmen Respond

By the fall of 1865, how did many freedmen respond to the all-white state conventions organized under Johnson's Reconstruction plan?

A) organizing freedmen's conventions in state capitals to call for certain rights
B) fleeing the South and heading to northern cities such as Chicago and New York
C) accepting that the South would remain in the hands of former Confederates
D) calling for a separate state for all African Americans because coexistence was unfathomable
E) resorting to vigilant violence in an attempt to combat the return of slavery by another name