W.E.B. DuBois called Reconstruction a “splendid failure.” Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not?

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W.E.B. DuBois called Reconstruction a “splendid failure.” Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not? How did black families, churches, schools, and other institutions contribute to the development of African-American culture and political activism in this period? How did the failure of land reform, continued poverty, and racially motivated violence lead to new forms of servitude? Include this vocabulary Freedmen’s Bureau Sharecropping Black Codes Andrew Johnson 14th amendment