How uncharacteristically progressive!

  • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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    410 months ago

    I’m not sure if I learned it in those grades, but I do remember attention being given to BHM in Februaries in elementary and high school. Black history was explicitly taught in elementary school for me for sure. I remember learning about The Underground Railroad.

    Of course, they glossed over the fact that Canada had slavery too, they just ended it earlier. We also didn’t need a war to do it, so there’s that!

    • @karlhungus@lemmy.ca
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      210 months ago

      I know halifax has some shit history that i didn’t learn in school – i think i mostly learned about black history from american sources, and my own reading.