South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott joined “Life, Liberty & Levin” on Sunday to analyze the state of Congress, criticizing Democratic majority leadership for locking out Republicans from negotiations on the multi-trillion-dollar socioeconomic overhaul legislation dubbed human infrastructure.
Published April 21. 2021 5:00PM
The obituary of Lawrence Otis Graham started my interest, maybe for you too. His works explored Black elite society in the mid-1980s and before. Those who are shouting about Black Lives Matter (I agree) do you really know your history or just about slavery?
Reginald Lewis, a Harvard Law alumnus, was the richest Black man in America, 1980s. He was worth over $2.5 billion. Evelyn Reid Syphax, also Black, came from a prominent family that owned the land where the Arlington National Cemetery now sits.
A college education was made available for some Black Americans around the Civil War. Howard, Fiske, and Atlanta University, plus Spellman for girls, were just the start.
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February 26, 2021
As we celebrate Black History Month, we should remember to acknowledge the many accomplishments of African Americans during Reconstruction and, more importantly, commit to better teach this era in our public schools.
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Traditionally, Reconstruction the period between 1865-1877 when the states that had seceded during the Civil War were reintegrated back into the Union has been glossed over in middle and high school. To the extent the period is covered at all, students learn only that carpetbaggers from the North flocked to the former Confederate states to swindle and otherwise take advantage of impoverished, recently vanquished southerners and that President Ulysses Grant was a corrupt incompetent chief executive.