After the Civil War, the whites in the south were being bitter. They were determined to keep blacks as slaves. White southerners did not want the blacks to have their social and economic opportunities. People in the north did not really care about the subject. Although Congress passed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, the whites from the south found ways to prevent Blacks from receiving social and economic equality. Blacks were often denied jobs on the basis of race. All public and private institutions in the South remained segregated because of race. There was no political will in the North to give social and economic equality to the blacks. When the Ku Klux Klan terrorized the blacks, support for rebuilding was introverted. African
