Reconstruction did not transform the South for African-Americans. I have come to this conclusion from reading "Retreat" and "A Short History of Reconstruction". After reading the two readings, it made me realize slavery did not really "end" until the Civil Rights Act. Reconstruction in my opinion just bought on all of the "white supremacist" groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan. In the beginning of Reconstruction it was good advice for African-Americans but then after two to three years the turn went from better to worst.
At first, when the south was transformed, it began help them to move toward the nineteenth century by making a new social order. The south's Redeemers, Secessionists, Democrats, Union Whigs Veterans of Confederacy, younger leaders, traditional planters, and advocates formed the New South. They began r
In other readings I have read, I have found that many southern states disqualified many African-Americans because of the color of their skin, such as in the "1890 Mississippi Constitution" the limitations were: you had to have no prison records, must know how to read or you must understand the Constitution as it is read to you, you must pay $2.00, and you have to pay school taxes. These limitations prohibited many African-Americans because many of them had prison records for running away from their masters, many of them did not know how to read because their masters never taught them and also because it was against the law for slaves to know how to read because you might teach your peers of what is going on in the world.
Not only didn't African-American's have the right to vote but women also were not treated eq
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