Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2018
Rowan University history professor William Carrigan has written that students are unfamiliar with Reconstruction because popular culture focuses on the Civil War — not the post-war era. history and its legacy today.” I want them to know that African-American history included progress, triumph and victory, as well as struggle.”.
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