In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published one of the first historical responses to the actual events of Reconstruction, denouncing the distorted retellings that most Americans had taken as fact. In his book, Black Reconstruction in America, Du Bois claimed that “the unending tragedy of Reconstruction is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its real significance, its national and world-wide implications… This problem involved the very foundations of American democracy, both political and economic…
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