What was life like in the South for African Americans after Reconstruction ended in 1877? (African American Reconstruction)

        The life of African Americans in the United States is embedded with racism and segregation that lasts in contemporary American society. With the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, a set of laws similar to the black codes which stated separate but equal. The emergence of the KKK which was a social club for white Southerners created after the Civil War brought treacherous acts against African Americans. The act of lynching took place during the night where African Americans where tortured to death and left in the doorsteps of politics or families. With the film the Birth of a Nation advertisement of the KKK sprung in which stereotypes and racism was prominent in the film.

        The 13 14 and 15 amendment which where designed to protect the civil rights of African American and any other citizen was just a written paper with no enforcement. African Americans were vulnerable to the white supremacist. The KKK act of 1871 was deemed unconstitutional in 1882 and led to abolish the little protection of African Americans had. Poll taxes was prominent in the South where African Americans had to pay and take literacy tests in order to vote.