How were African Americans treated after the Reconstruction Era?

After the Reconstruction Era, African Americans faced systemic discrimination and violence, particularly through Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the South. Despite the legal end of slavery, many were subjected to sharecropping and economic exploitation, which perpetuated cycles of poverty. Additionally, groups like the Ku Klux Klan emerged, using terror to suppress Black civil rights and maintain white supremacy. Overall, the period marked a regression in the social and political advancements made during Reconstruction.