During reconstruction, what happened to most african american families in the south?

During Reconstruction (Since 1865 until 1877), most of African American families in the south were in poverty, because when they were slavery they coudn´t study or receive wages by their strain, so for that reason, during the Reconstruction they couldn´t work in better places at the cities and most of them were in poorness, whereby they were forced to stay in rural territories, working in lumbering or farming to support their families.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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