IDK we just watched movies in my history classes until college.
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Lived in Arkansas for 40 years of life, never even heard about the Elaine Race Riots until last year.
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That Rosa Parks was just a tired lady, not an activist who planned and bravely carried out her bus protest.
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Or that she actually stole the idea from 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, who did it first, months before. I was blown away when I heard this story. The unsung heroes.https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin …
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That the South was fighting for states rights, when the truth is they were fighting against that - they actually wanted a stronger central government to force northern states to return fugitive slaves.
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I remember my grade school added taxes and tariffs to the list of reasons as if it was a bunch of IRS agents fighting each other.
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Australia was terra nullius. Those pesky Aboriginals just didn't count. Not Recognised as citizens of their own land til 1967. We learnt NOTHING about the horrendous treatment of indigenous Australians that persists today.
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That Christopher Columbus discovered North America. They were still teaching that shit to my son who, in first grade, answered Leif Erikson to that (poorly worded) question and got marked wrong. The teacher reversed her decision when I confronted her.
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Good on you for confronting her about it. It's weird that they still teach kids that.
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