American Reconstruction: Success or Failure?

Despite the fact that Lincoln passed laws and amendments that were suppose to help in the equalizing of America the reconstruction was not a success, because it was never totally completed. "Although slavery had been abolished with the 13th amendment, the white people of the South were determined to keep the Negro in his place, socially, politically, and economically." (http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/nvsageh/Hist122/Part1/ MissBlCode.htm). African Americans may have been freed from slavery, but they still had to endure the cruelty of the Black Codes. …