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Time to Bury the “Lost Cause”

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April Confederate History Month. His original seven-paragraph proclamation was full of paeans to grey-clad heroes but nowhere mentioned the agonies of slavery. This understandably offended African Americans, and McDonnell spent a day or so getting beat up in the media.
Topic
Rights & Activism
text
Literature

An Angry Black Woman on the Subject of the Angry White Man

Jordan's poem takes on an sarcastic tone as she describes the duties, punishments, emotions and false promises endured by African Americans since slavery in response to Bill Clinton's description of affirmative action as "a psychologically difficult time for the so-called angry White man."
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June Jordan
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Class Rights & Activism
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History
Economics
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Justice Action
July 7, 2014
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Celebrate Juneteenth With a Commitment to Disrupt the Continuum of Hard History

Learning for Justice is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., to resist current efforts to erase and alter our nation’s history. As we celebrate Juneteenth, we uplift liberation and Black joy and culture. And we commit to learning and teaching the hard history that is foundational to the United States and the ongoing movement for freedom and equality.

  • Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
  • Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1
  • Teaching Hard History: American Slavery |Key Concepts Videos