constitutions created by blacks and whites together. However, like many benefits and rights given to African Americans during the Reconstruction, they soon disappeared. In relation to the legal system, after the Reconstruction “few blacks remained on local police forces or in state militias” and except for a few places “blacks no longer served on southern juries”. The South was transformed for African Americans during the reconstruction, but southern democrats quickly reversed many of the benefits gained during that time during the Redemption. The Reconstruction placed African Americans on a whole new standpoint economically and socially. African Americans went from slave laborer and piece of possession to an equal citizen who could own land, earn wages and make economic decisions. Sharecropping was also instituted during this time and it gave laborers on other peoples plantations “a share of the harvest”. These new jobs African Americans gained, from their political freedom, led them to the only right no one could ever withhold from them. The only goal that reconstruction followed through on was brought forth on March 30, of 1870. From the Reconstruction the 15th Amendment was proclaimed. African Americans were taking a major step towards economic equality during the Reconstruction. This, however, was all repressed by the redemption. Almost every economic and social benefit gained by the African Americans during the Reconstruction was lost during the redemption. The reason why the Reconstruction fell short was because near the end of a 12-year struggle from the Radical Republicans, their determination slowly faded. Towards the end of the Reconstruction era, most grew tired of the ideas behind it, felt that there was no progress and eventually gave in. To compensate for their struggles the Democrats came to an agreement in 1876. Democrats agreed to allow Rutherford B. Hayes to run for the 1867 electi...
