Ya’ll should be ashamed. Time to do some educatin’. A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center has declared that states are much less educated about civil rights than they were a generation ago. “The report assigns letter grades to each state based on how extensively its academic standards address the civil rights movement. Thirty-five states got an F because their standards require little or no mention of the movement, it says. Eight of the 12 states earning A, B or C grades for their treatment of civil rights history are Southern states where there were major protests, boycotts or violence during the movement’s peak years in the 1950s and ’60s.” New York, Florida and Alabama all scored A’s for the way they talk about MLK, James Meredith and Malcolm X while other states just tell the MLK “fairy tale” and keep it moving. Let’s tighten up, schools.
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Read A Book: Study Shows That Students’ Knowledge of Civil Rights History Has Deteriorated
