How did Reconstruction help Africans Americans?

The very  first African Americans to be serving  in the United States of america Congress were Republicans elected during the Reconstruction Era. After slaves were emancipated and granted citizenship rights, freedmen gained political representation in the Southern United States for the first time.

Explanation:

The reconstruction implemented by Congress,which lasted from 1866 to 1877 was aimed at reorganizing the southern states after Civil war,Providing the means for readmitting them into the Union,And defining the means by which Black and whites could live together in a nonslave society.  

Explanation:

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