How black was black reconstruction?

Du Bois' first essay on the topic, Reconstruction and Its Benefits delivered before the American Historical Association on 30 December, 1909 in New York City

The black codes were a set of regulation for freedmen. They restricted their economic rights, they couldn't vote, they couldn't hold office or serve on a jury and they could not receive a public...

Yes but in the cloth industry there some 17 shades of black

African Americans were trying to find a Home,Clothes And,food That's when the Freedmans Bureau came in

Racism continued and blacks still werent treated as equalls, but later on came Martin Luther and that era ended it all.