Many African Americans made education a high priority after the Civil War. National Museum of African American History and Culture by Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, West Virginia University I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about black history: “Martin Luther King freed the slaves.” … Continued
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