Question

Why did the congress' reconstruction efforts to ensure equal rights to the freedmen fail?

Answer 1

Equivalent rights for the blacks failed because of the fact the community and state regulation makers surpassed regulations that segregated the whites and the blacks (Jim Crow regulations). The KKK became formed in 1866 to maintain blacks from partaking interior the community via intimidation. The KKK might carry any black they had to because of the fact no white jury might convict a white for killing a black,