What effect did the Reconstruction Amendments (the 13th, 14th, and 15th) have on the status of blacks in the South when the Reconstruction period ended in the 1870s?
a) These amendments were powerful tools that led to the complete equality of black southern citizens in the late 1800s.
b) These amendments assured that public as well as private institutions did not engage in discrimination after the Reconstruction period.
c) These amendments helped black citizens get jobs.
d) These amendments were counteracted by a series of civil rights cases and did not contribute to the equal status of black citizens until almost a hundred years later.