A long history of deception, and what the future holds

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A long history of deception, and what the future holds
For much of the 20th century, Southern classrooms treated Black history - when they touched the subject at all - as a sideshow to a white-dominated narrative.
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Teachers taught students to sing Dixie and memorize long lists of forgettable governors. Civil War battles got described in detail. Textbooks celebrated the violent overthrow of democratically-elected, multiracial governments. Lynching went unmentioned. The evils of slavery got cursory acknowledgments - and quick dismissals.
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"It should be noted that slavery was the earliest form of social security in the United States," a 1961 Alabama history textbook said, falsely.
The same forces that took over public spaces to erect monuments to the Confederacy and its white supremacist tenets also kept a tight grip on the history taught to Southern pupils. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) spent decades shaping and reshaping textbooks to put a strong emphasis on Lost Cause views of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which glorified the white supremacist foundations of the Confederacy and was used to justify segregation and authoritarian Jim Crow governance.
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"With all the attention they received in terms of reference to the monuments, I think their most lasting impact was in controlling and censoring textbooks," said Kevin Levin, a historian who has written on the Civil War in American memory. "That's often overlooked."
But Black Southerners refused to accept these distortions. Black historians mounted challenges to Lost Cause mythology as early as 1913. Parents and grandparents pushed back against the school lessons given to their children. They passed family stories onto children and grandchildren. They took ordinary moments, like preparing food or fixing hair, to tell stories of Black achievement.
confederate reckoning:Southern newspapers were vocal supporters of the Confederacy. It lasted for generations
All too many times, they had to do their own work to learn that history. Frederick Webb, an actor who graduated from a high school in Texarkana, Arkansas, in 2004, had to do his own research to uncover that history, including borrowing a copy of Alex Haley's "Roots" from an English teacher.
"It was 10th or 11th grade … there was a shelf in the back [of the classroom] and the entire shelf was the book 'Roots,'" he said. "But we never talked about anything like that."
Efforts to improve history education moved slowly. Lost Cause mythology came under sustained fire from academic historians starting in the 1950s, but that research took decades to reach classrooms. After a long court fight, Mississippi in 1980 adopted the textbook "Conflict and Change," which confronted lynching and the dehumanizing aspects of slavery in ways previous textbooks had not. Later textbooks provided more information about slave life and abandoned earlier whitewashings of terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.