Schools and public education were important issues to free African Americans because:
O A. they no longer had slave masters to educate them.
O B. free blacks did not want to attend Catholic schools.
O C. the Freedman's Bureau closed most of the schools in the South
D. laws before the Civil War made it illegal to teach slaves how to
read.

D

Explanation:After the civil war there weren't any laws made that free African Americans should go to school. But the laws where made for the slaves to be free.

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