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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

But despite those new expectations, most school districts in the state where the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till mobilized black Americans still use textbooks that give local civil rights milestones short shrift. Before 2011, Mississippi public school students weren’t required to learn about the Civil Rights Movement at all.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

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