Although former slaves and other African-Americans were given the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment, in the period following Reconstruction many of the educational gains they had achieved were eroded or lost. This can be traced to
A. an increase in blacks' political participation.
B. decreasing black interest in formal education.
C. a lowering of blacks' power to exert political influence.
D. All these answers are correct.
C. a lowering of blacks' power to exert political influence.
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