African Americans experienced strong hatred from the South. Reconstruction was a failure because of ratification, government corruption, and racism.
The 13th amendment, 14th amendment, and 15th amendment were passed African Americans were never free they were still segregated. The "Negroes found themselves systematically separated from whites ("Seeds of Failure in Radical Policy", 304). The 14th amendment said, that African Americans equal rights and the US citizenship, however, they had to sit in the back of the bus while the whites sat at the front. Inclusive they had to give up their seats if a white had no seat. " Negroes.. were often educated in segregated schools, punished in segregated prisons, nursed in separated hospitals, buried in segregated cemeteries" (Document I, 306) African Americans didn't receive the correct treatment they deserved they were treated