How American Textbooks Taught White Supremacy
A historian shares what he learned by examining 3,000 old U.S. history text books.
A historian shares what he learned by examining 3,000 old U.S. history text books.
The all-time most-reproduced image of Jesus is Warner Sallman’s light-eyed, light-haired “Head of Christ” from 1940.
With the deaths of Rep. John Lewis and the Rev. C.T. Vivian, we've lost two civil rights greats who drew upon their faith as they pushed for Black equality.
Even the Ku Klux Klan rooted their ideology of white supremacy in Protestant theology and the Bible.
Frederick Douglass delivered his "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" on April 14, 1876, at the unveiling of The Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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As a former social studies teacher, I have no shortage of ideas on how educators can do a better job of understanding slavery and presenting it to others.
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