![]() Studies by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reveal that the nation’s teachers are largely uncomfortable teaching Black history and find their textbooks inadequate. Educators agree that most schools are ill-prepared to teach difficult aspects of American history. Or maybe you read about the Chicago elementary school that celebrated Black History Month with an assignment for kindergartners to draw and write about African animals.Īnd then there is the geography textbook used in Texas high schools until 2015 that described enslaved Africans as “immigrants” to the United States.Įxamples like these are just part of the problem. Perhaps you read about a junior high school’s overnight nature camp in Wisconsin that included an Underground Railroad simulation where, according to one student, the Black students had to pretend they were runaway slaves while the white students acted as slave catchers or helpful abolitionists.
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