• snooggums@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    Yet another reminder that people act like the civil rights movment is distant history, but a lot of the people who were involved in the protests are atill alive today.

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    7 months ago

    MLK Jr. and Anne Frank were the same age.

    Abe Lincoln got a fax from a samurai.
    (Okay that didn’t actually happen - but it could have)

  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    This is probably one of the most egregious reasons that civil rights photos are in black and white in the textbooks despite color cameras having been a well-established thing by then. To make it seem like it was long ago when it was/is still quite recent. RedliningYour textbooks are made in Texas and the publishers therefore use Texan standards nearly everywhere…Educational material should not be made in red states.