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In the years pursuing the Civil War known arsenic Reconstruction, newly-freed African American men could yet vote, and would beryllium elected to correspond Southerners successful Congress. But it was a play that would beryllium transformed into an epoch of segregation and Jim Crow laws, and beryllium taught to succeeding generations arsenic a failed governmental experiment. Yet, Reconstruction is present being fixed its owed successful schoolhouse curriculums, and successful a caller PBS documentary by Harvard prof Henry Louis Gates. Mo Rocca talks with Gates, arsenic good arsenic with historiographer Eric Foner and writer Lawrence Otis Graham, astir immoderate of the astir noted African American figures successful the post-Civil War era.
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