How black history has changed in my lifetime
A personal perspective from a boy who grew up in South Carolina in the 1980s
I didn’t learn much about black people when I was a kid. Growing up in the South Carolina public school system in the 80’s and early 90’s meant that all you learned about black people was that there was a time when we were slaves, and now we weren’t. We learned that Lincoln freed the slaves, and after that, everything was hunky-dory. Along the way, Geor…
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