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According to historian Eric Foner, what did W.E.B. Du Bois mean when he described Reconstruction as a “splendid failure”?

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While efforts to gain civil rights for freedman did not Survive, they did have some enduring achievements such as public schools

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While efforts to gain civil rights for freedman did not Survive, they did have some enduring achievements such as public schools
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