At the end of Reconstruction, "so called black Americans" had begun to make major gains in the south. They had amassed over $1 billion of land, businesses, schools, colleges, libraries, banks, and churches. They became physicians, lawyers, and were holding political seats in government etc...
Between 1880 - 1950, tens of millions of Anglo Saxon European immigrants began to flood American towns. With the formation of the KKK and a racially biased government, there was a war waged on the black prosperous gains. Thus giving birth to what has been deemed The Negro Holocaust. Check out this podcast to learn more.
Reference: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html
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