The Reconstruction and Blacks

The Reconstruction and Blacks The goal of the Reconstruction was to heal the wounds inflicted by both the North and the South left by the Civil War. The Reconstruction, which dated approximately from 1863 to 1867, succeeded in reuniting the nation nearly separated by the Civil War. However, the promised civil equality for Blacks was only short-lived. There are several reasons that the Reconstruction did not bring “justice and social and economic equality to freed Blacks.” The …

…Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi. They prohibited the equality of whites and blacks. For example, whites and blacks were prohibited from eating in the same room or restaraunt, and from using the same bathroom. Better quality bathrooms and restaraunts were provided for whites. Cohabitation and intermarriage between a white and a black was not allowed as well. As you can see, because of differing views and racial attitudes, this goal of equality was not fully achieved.