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…showed last 75 words of 766 total…the fact that the blacks were prevented from voting, and they were treated very unfairly, the Reconstruction failed in bringing blacks social and economic equality. Since blacks were so poorly educated then, they still do not hold as many high positions in government or business today. Even since the blacks have become more and more equal to whites it will probably still be many years until there is a black President of the United States.