What steps were taken during reconstruction to rebuild the south and preserve the rights of african americans

One step was that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, making slavery illegal in the United States.

The  pan-african movement  was an "emotional, cultural, psychological and ideological  movement  that began among the  african  dispora in the western hemisphere, for a closer  purpose, so that  african  people could feel secure, attain political, economic as well as psychological power visa vis other races or world regions" .