Was reconstruction a success or failure for the nation as a whole and for Black Americans in particular?

The Reconstruction Period was a time of great hardship for the United States. President Andrew Johnson was faced with the task of reuniting the North and South together after the Civil War. The Reconstruction was a time when the government thought that all people needed human rights even African Americans. Until this point African Americans had no rights. They were still considered less than a full person in a society that proclaimed that all of …

…Reconstruction of the South was unsuccessful because it did not succeed in giving blacks equal rights and in the end, the south socially, economically, and politically returned the same, if not worse as before the war. The Reconstruction left an important mark in America's history. However African Americans through the civil rights movement were able to pull themselves through this problem a reign victoriously as they have and will continue to do all through history.