As Black History Month starts, it’s important to talk about the less well-known lessons from Black History that have helped shape the world we live in now. A lot of historians are looking into events that may not be taught as often as they should be.
Some places make it hard to teach black history in schools because history books and lessons don’t allow it. Some states, like Florida, Oklahoma, and Texas, don’t let you teach certain things about race in school, and some don’t even allow African American history classes.
We are now going to talk about some less well-known events in black history.
Freedom Summer, which happened in Mississippi and was also called the Mississippi Summer Project, was a program in which activists tried to get as many black people registered to vote as possible. People thought they could make a change by being more polite and getting the news out about what was going on in 1964. More than 60 churches and homes were bombed during Freedom Summer, though. Three black Mississippians and four civil rights workers were killed, and more than 1,000 people were arrested during the movement.
When the “don’t buy where you can’t work” rule was put on black people in the city in the 1930s, there were a lot of protests and boycotts. This basically meant that black people couldn’t shop in places where they couldn’t get jobs. This led to protests and boycotts to get African Americans the right to work, which created tens of thousands of jobs for them.
A decision in the 1847 case of Robert vs. The City of Boston led to the phrase “separate but equal,” which was used a lot after that. For his daughter’s safety, Benjamin Roberts sued the city of Boston because the schools closer to them were only for white kids.
