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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Many states require lessons on the Civil War as part of U.S. history and social studies curriculums.