life,life has its own irony
Sorry the answer took so long -laughs- but it only created a social hierarchy that stood for decades.
Abraham Lincoln, the president he released slaves from slavery on January 1st 1863
Boats in the ocean and chart plotting
The idea that reconstruction ended discrimination is a gross fallacy. After reconstruction ended, lynch mobs still existed, the KKK ran rampant, poll taxes, literacy test, and other restrictive measures stopped them from gaining any political clout, socially they were still viewed as inferior by many people, and economically they were unable to gain advantageous positions and become monetarily comfortable enough to gain a middle-class identity.