On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
The greatest success of the Freedmen’s Bureau lay in the planting of the free school among Negroes, and the idea of free elementary education among all classes in the South.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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This quote identifies the establishment of free schools for Black people and the promotion of universal elementary education in the South as the most significant accomplishment of the Freedmen's Bureau.
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