Abstract
The pathetic state of urban public school education offered to African-American children stems from slavery, when it was against the law to educate slaves, who were regarded as chattel. This article traces the history of the blighting of their minds by stripping those slaves of their African culture, and its effect on African-American children, as well as other children of color, today. Horton offers suggestions for coping with the problems of modern schools as related to respecting and teaching these children, pointing out that the system is the problem, not the children.
Recommended Citation
Horton, Harold
(1994)
"Teaching African-American Children: The Legacy of Slavery,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 10:
Iss.
1, Article 23.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol10/iss1/23
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