What was life like for African Americans after reconstruction?

African Americans Reconstruction Era?

• I need to know about discirmination/racisim that African Americans faced during the Reconstruction era. Can anyone send me some websites that explain this? Thanks!

• Answer:

  Reconstruction was probably the era of the 19th century when African Americans faced the LEAST amount of discrimination. They had been freed from slavery, they had U.S. citizenship, and they (men, that is, but not women) had the right to vote, in reality as well as in theory. The former Confederate politicians were temporarly out of office, and many public offices in the South were held by black officials, including many state legislative seats and several seats in the US Congress. I'm sure there were some ways in which blacks were discriminated against but much less than under slavery or under the post-Reconstruction regime (after 1877). There are many books in your library that can give you detailed and reliable information about this. Go there and read some of them.