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I never took a course in African Americanhistory during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools. My knowledge of Black history came as sprinkling rain, a paltry amount that was never enough to have a significant impact.
Census data shows that rates of home-schooling doubled between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the fall of that year. Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. The Gaddies.
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In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “AmericanHistory and Civics” fourfold.
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Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (New York, 2020); Henry Louis Gates, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (New York, 2019); James W. History,” Journal of AmericanHistory 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Wilson, “Visual Culture: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?,”
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