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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America

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The Reconstruction of the United States

Black reconstruction emerges during the depression decade of the 1930s it's an attempt to overthrow the then reigning consensus about this period following the u.s civil war speaking of reconstruction 1865 to let us say or the sake of this discussion 1877 when a compromise between two parties leads to a withdrawal of federal troops from Dixie. The former enslavers were hell-bent on making sure that reconstruction was a an abysmal failure that's why they organized the ku klutz clan even radicals today i would argue still have current ramifications and repercussions in so far as the united states historically has been a wildly anti-communist nation.

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