Was Reconstruction a "Splendid Failure"

My opinion is that yes, reconstruction was a "splendid failure" indeed. I agree with Eric Foner's side on this story. He believes that although Reconstruction did not achieve radical goals, it was considered a "splendid failure" because it offered African Americans in the South a temporary vision of a free society. Reconstruction was the violent, dramatic, and controversial era following the Civil War, also known as an era of unrelieved sordidness in American political and social life. The central participant in the drama of Reconstruction was the black freedman. It was grounded in the conviction that blacks were unfit to share in political power. Many black people tried to share their opinions on these issues in there books but they were just simply ignored. The right to vote was not simply thrust upon them by meddling outsiders, since blacks began agitating for the suffrage as soon as they were freed. Freedmen did enjoy a real measure of political power and in most states, blacks held only a small fraction of political offices. I really do believe that in 'reconstruction', it did however benefit the blacks so they wouldn't get treated unfairly anymore.