Retired professor Marvin Dunn is challenging the 'anti-woke' education policies of Gov. Ron DeSantis by showing high school students sites of racist events in Florida's history.
AdvertisementMeanwhile, Dunn’s statewide “Teach the Truth” tours are taking high school students to the sites of some of the worst racial violence in Florida history. His first tour in January took more than two dozen high school students from Miami and their family members to a museum that marks where married Black civil rights activists Harry T. Moore and Harriette V.S. Moore were killed on Christmas Day in 1951 when a bomb planted under their home exploded.
His book “A History of Florida: Through Black Eyes,” contains photos unearthed over 50 years of research, documenting lynchings and other crimes against Black Floridians. He donated“Almost all of Florida’s painful racial past has been whitewashed, marginalized or buried intentionally,” Dunn wrote. “But I was born here. I know Florida’s flowers and her warts.”
“We’re going to keep on teaching it,” Dunn said. “This is the antidote to the DeSantis-izing of history.”Black history is taught in 2021, when he asked the Florida Board of Education to adopt rules banning critical race theory in public schools. Critical race theory is an approach to studying history that starts with the premise that racism is systemic in American society, including legal systems and other institutions.
The state Department of Education will hold work sessions in early February to determine what social studies curriculum should look like under the Stop WOKE Act. Thompson wants Education Commissioner Manny Diaz and his department to use input from the task force to help design the curriculum. She has succeeded before — helping amend a bill
“Learning history will create anguish. People should feel anguish when they learn we had slavery in this country. But the teachers shouldn’t be telling people how to feel,” Fine said. “That’s what the law says. It doesn’t say you can’t teach things that will make you feel bad. That’s not what it says because a lot of things will. But it says you can’t tell them how to feel. That’s indoctrination.”
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