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They did not go deep enough and besides the whites refused to cooperate with the blacks to make them a success.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “They did not go deep enough and besides the whites refused to cooperate with the blacks to make them a success.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké argues that the failure of reconstruction was due to insufficient depth and lack of cooperation from white Southerners.
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