African american Quote by Sol Stern

“I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the Eurocentric view…

— Ronald Takaki

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

— Ashley Walters

“...Of course there was no word in the American papers, and no one at the State Department had a clue- at least not that…

— Naomi Benaron

I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country.…

— Don Lemon

“If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won’t have to define school achievement as…

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know…

— Yolanda King

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what…

— Clint Smith

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

— Shelby Steele

The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad.…

— Ashley Graham

I was often filled with excitement to be given a platform to showcase Black history to others. I never questioned why Black history wasn't…

— Judi Love

“The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write. This but…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.

— Andre Gray