Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 1, 2017
But despite those new expectations, most school districts in the state where the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till mobilized black Americans still use textbooks that give local civil rights milestones short shrift. No fourth-grade classroom in 116 districts that reported data used a book published more recently than 2006.
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