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What did Du Bois challenge in his 1935 magnum opus, Black Reconstruction in America?

  • The prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction Era

  • The idea that the Civil War was about states' rights

  • The notion that slavery was a benign institution

  • The belief that the South was justified in seceding from the Union

Answer

In Black Reconstruction in America, Du Bois challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction Era.
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