the disabled, the poverty stricken

残疾人和极度贫困的人们
And above all else they created public schools,

除此之外还开办了公立学校
the first public schools the South had ever seen

这是南方第一次所公立学校
South Carolina had the first

南卡莱罗纳州出台了
comprehensive school law of any southern state, passed in 1870

南方第一部综合学校法于1870年通过
By 1871 they had thirty-two percent of people of school age

到了1871年三成的适龄儿童
attending some 1700 public schools, in South Carolina--

进入到了南卡1700所公立学校读书
blacks and whites

黑人和白人学生
And by 1875 the South Carolina public school system,

到了1875年南卡的公立学校体制
created by the Radical Republican regime,

这是由激进共和党创立的
had fifty percent--this is still a rural society and a society

有五成的那时候还是一个蛮荒的社会
ridden with problems of race and violence, as we'll see--

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