Problem: According to W.E.B. Du Bois, how did the white supremacist views of historians distort the role of African Americans in the history of the Civil War era? Group of answer choices Those historians downplayed the role of African Americans but generally recognized that Reconstruction had been a noble experiment destroyed by violence. Those historians focused predominantly on economic issues and ignored the politics of the era. Those historians completely ignored African Americans, considering them irrelevant to the story of the Civil War era. Those historians assumed that African Americans were incapable of citizenship and that the failures of Reconstruction stemmed from African Americans' inferiority.