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Most White Southerners could not vote or hold public office during Reconstruction because they supported the south in the Civil War
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Southerners regained home rule following After Reconstruction.
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Southern States wasted little time stripping Blacks of their Civil Rights they had gained during Reconstruction.
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The South imposed segregation on African Americans to keep them in an inferior social and political position.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s Plessey vs Ferguson decision of 1896 made it legal to segregate the races in all public places. Among the public places including schools, parks, movie theaters, and restaurants.
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The U.S. Supreme Court "separate but equal" rule of 1896.
