“One fact and one alone,” Du Bois wrote, “explains the attitude of most recent writers toward Reconstruction; they cannot conceive of Negroes as men.”
According to DuBois: The earlier "dunning School" of Reconstruction history neglected the viewpoint and contributions of the freed Negro.
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