Reconstruction and the Issue of Equality: How Hope Was Not Fostered After the Civil War. This paper addresses how the Reconstruction in the United States provided a large measure of hope to black citizens, but that this hope was false. Laws such as the Jim Crow acts and the Black Codes soon destroyed the potential for equality between blacks and whites. 3 pgs. Bibliography lists 3 sources. Pages: 3 Bibliography: 3 source(s) listed Filename: 5235 Reconstruction Civil War.doc Price: 26.85