How Reconstruction failure has caused racism persistence
I agree that ending of the Reconstruction era contributed to racism persistency in North and South. Reconstruction is a period where the US government advocated for the rewriting of nations law with a guarantee of equitable basic rights. Former slaves were guaranteed to be freed and African Americans through the Reconstruction, looked forward in experiencing a biracial government.
Reconstruction led to Africans being selected to political offices and being allowed to actively participate in the nation’s political processes. They owned the right to seek for their own employment unlike earlier when they had to be serving only under the whites by mostly being slaves. They participated in the newly formed constitution and at the local government as well.
However reconstruction was overthrown or rather we can say that it was betrayed and evicted. Southern whites and the Northern Democrats ignited the end of the reconstruction era. From the start, the Northern democrats didn’t want to embrace the idea of having a nation that considered the Blacks their equals this fact motivated them to fight against the equitability that was being advocated.
The end of this period brought a bitter end to the gains that were given to African Americans. And if things started to get worse immediately after the period this is evident that racism was going to be hard to erase completely from the north and the south parts. The war that followed placed Blacks in places that they were in before Reconstruction. They had to go back to work in the most lowly paying jobs that were considered to require unskilled man power. The actions that followed the failure of this era is a great prediction of Blacks being doomed and racism being impossible to erase.