By ignoring these affairs, they allowed the hatred against colored people to culminate and spread from region to region. After freedmen secured the right to vote and serve jury duty, people still found reasons to attack blacks. To some people, blacks were too ignorant and unfit to serve to serve on a jury (Document D), and it proves that the reforms during this era had nearly nothing to do with racial relations. By claiming blacks had no right to be on a jury, it proves that no social equality was achieved during Reconstruction because people continuously kicked color people to the bottom of the social hierarchy. People were too stubborn to accept that blacks were equal to whites and that they had every right to be working for the government (Document G). Blacks lived in the same country as whites, but they were scorned for pursuing a career that allowed their voices to be heard. It was as if the white people during Reconstruction were trying to restrain colored people once more, as they did with
By ignoring these affairs, they allowed the hatred against colored people to culminate and spread from region to region. After freedmen secured the right to vote and serve jury duty, people still found reasons to attack blacks. To some people, blacks were too ignorant and unfit to serve to serve on a jury (Document D), and it proves that the reforms during this era had nearly nothing to do with racial relations. By claiming blacks had no right to be on a jury, it proves that no social equality was achieved during Reconstruction because people continuously kicked color people to the bottom of the social hierarchy. People were too stubborn to accept that blacks were equal to whites and that they had every right to be working for the government (Document G). Blacks lived in the same country as whites, but they were scorned for pursuing a career that allowed their voices to be heard. It was as if the white people during Reconstruction were trying to restrain colored people once more, as they did with