During the hundreds of years that black people were enslaved in America, it was against the law for them to be educated.
Many were secretly taught to read and write. and they in turn, taught other enslaved black people to read and write.
"It Has Taken Me Almost A lifetime To Discover That True Emancipation Lies In The Acceptance Of The Whole Past.
In Deriving Strength From All My Roots, In Facing Up To The Degradation As Well As The Dignity Of My Ancestors."
Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray
Did you know on June 25, 1948, Parmele, NC native William Claudius Chance (23 Nov. 1880–7 May 1970), was made to get off an Atlantic Coast Line Railroad passenger train car in Emporia, Virginia, for refusing to move to a car for black passengers.
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