During Radical Reconstruction blacks gained rights in the South that would have been unthinkable just decades earlier, and some were elected to office. Radical Reconstruction also saw the South's first publicly funded education system, economic development programs and anti-discrimination laws.
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because they were forced to settle there by the American and European settlers.
For the most part, no, they were light pink.
But, with the exception of the issues of the versions prior to 1977.