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StarfishSaver

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8. The fact that YOU didn't study it 50 years ago doesn't mean it wasn't around

Reply to Triloon (Reply #7)

Tue May 25, 2021, 06:50 PM

May 2021

I was in school then and my school district did have Black studies classes.

Your experience is not universal.

Google Carter G. Woodson. You will learn something about the history and development of Black Studies curricula. It didn't just begin a few years ago when you first heard about it.

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