Sunday, July 23, 2023

DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida’s New Standards for Black History - The New York Times

By saying that violence was perpetrated not just against but "by African Americans," the standards seem to grasp at teaching "both sides" of history, said LaGarrett King, the director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University at Buffalo. 

But historically, he said, "it's just not accurate." 

By and large, historians say, race massacres during the early 1900s were led by white groups, often to stop Black residents from voting...

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