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Primary Sources: How Black People Invented America's Education System

...And why the people who hate DEI, affirmative action and an educated population have always wanted to destroy it.

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Michael Harriot
Feb 18, 2025
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Pee Dee Rosenwald School, Marion SC via Library of Congress

Instead of untold stories from Black history, ContrabandCamp’s Primary Sources series shares pure, uncut and rarely told stories from the past straight from the primary source.

Some stories don’t need whitewashing.

On Sunday, Sept. 9, 1739, two weeks before a law requiring all white men to carry f…

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