Thanks again to @NPRCodeSwitch and @geedee215 for including @1GillianFrank1 and me on their CRT podcast.
Here’s a #HotTubTimeMachine thread on what the anti-CRT movement looked like 100 years ago.
Wasn’t pretty back then either.
npr.org/2021/08/20/102…
Here’s a #HotTubTimeMachine thread on what the anti-CRT movement looked like 100 years ago.
Wasn’t pretty back then either.
npr.org/2021/08/20/102…
In the 1920s Klan goons insisted that public schools must remain “theirs.” They disrupted school-board meetings and pushed flags and bibles on local schools.
adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/the…
adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/the…
The Klan said they were defending white children from dangerous ideas about Jesus and racism.
One pamphlet showed a Klansman riding to the rescue of the local public school
adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/the…
One pamphlet showed a Klansman riding to the rescue of the local public school
adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/the…
As their leader proclaimed, public schools “will grind out Americans like meat out of a grinder.”
adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/the…
adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/the…
Klan leaders backed a new set of textbooks. The Klan Govnr in Oregon called their books “the finest history of early America that we have ever had.”
But the books were so bad they got yanked right away.
iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2013/03/01/get…
But the books were so bad they got yanked right away.
iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2013/03/01/get…
The Klan goal in the 1920s was to keep public schools the domain of white Protestants.
No other histories were allowed.
No one else was allowed to think of themselves as “100% American.”
Sound familiar?
No other histories were allowed.
No one else was allowed to think of themselves as “100% American.”
Sound familiar?
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