CRT encourages accurate teaching of our nation’s history. If we don’t teach our children accurate history, young people will never learn from our nation’s failures or appreciate its successes. Unfortunately, some people only want to teach children a whitewashed version of history that portrays America as the mythical shining city on the hill it claims to be.W.E.B DuBois got it right when he wrote in “The Souls of Black Folk” (1903), “The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” The Kerner Commission (1968), a study published three weeks before Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, warned,
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