Question

What is the black power during reconstruction is about?

Answer 1

Answer: It was about the African Americans. During the first 2 years of reconstruction organised an Equal Rights Leagues throughout the South and held many local and state conventions to protest discriminatory treatment and demand suffrage - their aim and main message was equality before the law. Up to 2000 African American men served in political office and more than 600 were elected to state legislatures, and 16 served in Congress. To these, most of the time they had to win elections plagued by violence and fraud.

Answer 2

African Americans

Step-by-step explanation:

During the Reconstruction Era, African Americans in the former slave-holding states saw education as an important step towards achieving equality, independence, and prosperity. As a result, they found ways to learn despite the many obstacles that poverty and white people placed in their path.