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Marcia Ely

Marcia Ely
Executive Vice President of the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Race

It’s Personal: Changing How White People Think About Racism

October 11, 2019 • by Marcia Ely
I’ve watched the movement to take history textbooks to task for their alarming kid gloves treatment of slavery. I shook my head following last year’s story about Texas finally updating its public school curriculum to teach the truth that slavery was the main cause of the Civil War. And I ...
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