Schools need to connect the dots between slavery and segregation and the poverty found in...
Black History Month is almost over, which makes this a good time to admit the 96-year-old rite of February isn’t what it used to be. That doesn’t mean we should pull the plug on the annual observance, but it desperately needs a serious reboot.
Woodson later explained in his 1933 book, “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” why America’s bigoted education system didn’t provide a thorough understanding of Black history. “If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself,” he said.
Negro History Week was ours alone, but like many things originating in African American culture we didn’t keep it to ourselves. Inspired by the Black power movement, students at Kent State University organized the first Black History Month in 1970. Six years later, President Gerald Ford made Black History Month part of the nation’s bicentennial celebration.
If schools are instead going to continue to limit any focused instruction of Black history to one month, they need to do more with that month than teach children what a laundry list of Black people did to become famous. Schools need to connect the dots between slavery and segregation and the poverty found in too many Black communities today.
Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson deserve credit for the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, but some attention should also be afforded President Harry S. Truman. His 1948 executive order desegregating America’s armed forces was the nation’s first big step toward some sense of equality in the workplace, public accommodations, schools and housing.
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