And it became clear that Mississippi did this on purpose. How could this happen? Well, it happened because it’s what students had been taught in high school. There are so many direct lies in that sentence. Most of them thought it was a period when Black people took over the governments of Southern states, but screwed it up, and white people had to take control again. Loewen: I was teaching at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, and asked my students what they knew about reconstruction. How did you feel when you realized that people were learning history all wrong? Katie Couric: Jim, in 1970 - in your first year of teaching at a predominantly Black college in Mississippi - you heard some things from the students about reconstruction that really bothered you. history myths - and tells me why these “lies” are so dangerous. In a new interview, Loewen debunks common U.S. Loewen’s 1995 book Lies My Teacher Told Me.įor his book, Lowewn studied 12 different history textbooks used to teach across the country, and found falsehoods and omissions in the story of the country’s past. Many are turning to resources from academics, researchers and activists to educate themselves on implicit bias - and important events in history they never learned about. Loewen breaks down popular misconceptions taught in American textbooksĪmericans across the country are grappling with the impacts of decades upon decades of systemic racism.
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