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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 61 Print image (40K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 61 Print image (40K) |
| 52 Things need to be rearranged. First of all, I would teach the teachers, because most of the teachers have no concept about "black history." I need to clone myself at least five times. In Maryland, I am from one school to another. It has gotten so bad in the last five years that I had to have a schedule of teaching on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesday and Thursday so that I could go teach at other schools and teach the kids about black history. Not just teach them about Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass but about black history, about slavery and about the Civil Rights Movement and other movements. I do the same things with schools on Maryland's border like Delaware. My schedule is just that bad. I can give you a schedule and show you within a two-month period when I was making at least 60 presentations sometimes even more, because I was the only black historian on the Eastern Shore. That is sad. You have to teach the teachers and you have to teach the administrators because they don't know the history either. It should not be taught in just February, it should be interspersed throughout the entire curriculum. You can't just stop teaching everything you're doing and say "ok now its time for Black History Month." Black history |