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As a member of the "Teacher Cadette Corps", I began teaching children to read while I was in fifth grade. I would like to give a shout-out to the Hartford Courant and other newspapers for printing the story wa-a-ay back when - like forty years ago. Although

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Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues Why Black History Month is important: 1 of 32
In 1926 Dr. Carter G. Woodson, an African American author, scholar, founder of the Journal of Negro History, the Associated Publishers, the Negro History Bulletin, and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History established the second week in February as "Negro History Week" in celebration of Frederick Douglass a... More..
Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues An overview of the Jim Crow laws: 1 of 9
Jim Crow Laws spelled out a segregationist system implemented for the purpose of segregating blacks from whites in American Southern states in the 1880's. In human terms, Jim Crow was an 1830's minstrel show "black-face" caricature, portrayed as a crippled old black slave, for the purpose of inciting negative stereotypes aga... More..
Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues The Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist church bombing and its consequences: 1 of 6
In a September 16, 1963 statement expressing outrage and grief regarding the killing of four African American children at a church bombing in Birmingham Alabama, then President John F. Kennedy pinpointed "public disparagement of law and order" as instigators of the incident. At the time of the bombing, Alabama's Governor, Ge... More..
Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues The importance of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech: 1 of 5
Born in 1797?into slavery in Ulster County New York, Sojourner Truth, in 1826, fled the home of her master taking her infant daughter but leaving her other three or four children behind. [The number of children she actually left behind is unclear because it is undetermined as to whether or not one of her children died at bir... More..
Society & Lifestyle > African-American Issues Important milestones in African-American education: 3 of 3
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America, and author of the Declaration of Independence the document proclaiming independence of thirteen North American colonies from Great Britain was America's first leader to propose creating a free school system that would offer education to all. He proposed g... More..