African Americans During The Reconstruction Period

During the reconstruction period a huge change shifted in the south and that was the freeing of the African American slaves. Of course they slave owners didn’t agree with this decision so after the reconstruction period the angry white southerners who had power in the south before the civil war slowly gained their power back. Once of the things to take place was the denying blacks the right to vote by harder for them to be eligible. The whites decided to create literacy test since it was clear that a majority of African Americans could not read, they created a poll tax because just as before they knew most of all ;if not all blacks were poor and wouldn’t be able to afford the tax to even be allowed the opportunity of voting. The Southerners