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The rights of African Americans were severely limited by Jim Crow Laws and segregation. But during Reconstruction, Congress was controlled by the Radical Republicans, who pushed through a bunch of legislation for the newly freed slaves. What happened to those Radical Republicans? Did they give up?

by /u/nowlan101 in /r/AskHistorians

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