The way I see it, Carter G. Woodson would know what to do.
Back in 1933, when he published his seminal book The Mis-Education of the Negro, Woodson was a respected academic and a man of some prominence at a time when it was still notable for a Black man to hold such high-toned positions. The book was a strong critique of the education system’s failure to present or commission scholarship on the history and accomplishments of Black people in America, stories that “were overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed by the writers of history textbooks and the teachers who use them,” he wrote.
