This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement,
because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
— Carter G. Woodson
When owners of enslaved people in the United States forade their “chattel” from attending schools or learning to read, there was a very urgent reason for it. They knew that if their enslaved prop…
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