Reconstruction was a very crucial stage in the American History because it helps rebuild the Southern economy and help them recover from the war. However segregation was an aftermath of Reconstruction. Segregation is the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. Many White Southerners believed if they gave everything to the freedmen that they had but in worse quality or condition it would be fine. It was only a certain group of Southerners that believed in this, many saw the freedmen as equal or just normal people. In one account, a man who was a stranger (who was white) to the Jim Crow Laws sat in the back and saw the freedmen as equal. After a few weeks he began to understand what the Jim Crow
