Teaching Negro History

Teaching Negro History

Like other minorities, black Americans have a history of their own peculiar sufferings and peculiar experiences, as well as special forms of resistance or of protective evasion. But this history is distinguished from the history of all other minorities in that no member of the race has been able to escape it. Baptism does not wash off the color of the skin or the memory of slavery, integration even at its best

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