'Learning history is partly about understanding injustices past and present,' writes Lewis M. Steel. 'But it’s also about understanding how people came together to fight back.'
At 85 years of age, having been a civil rights lawyer virtually all my professional life, at times my mind wanders toward despair.
Certainly, there are many factors involved. There is the overwhelming desire for political power of some, which negates all else. There is the endless racism and belief by many in white superiority, which tears our country apart. Yet that teaching is vital to the public’s understanding of the true history of this country since the Civil War, when slave-like conditions were reestablished in the South, enforced by Jim Crow laws and the Klan. That teaching is vital to understanding that racism still exists all over America despite the passage of the 1960s Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.
Teaching history is vital to the common good, not least because it’s a step toward encouraging political engagement at all levels. This engagement takes time. But without that effort, our common dreams will remain just that: the dreams of people who do not understand how"woke" has become"woke" and how to return it to its original meaning and broaden it in the process.Lewis M. Steel is senior counsel at Outten & Golden LLP and an Institute for Policy Studies board member.
Teaching history is vital to the common good, not least because it’s a step toward encouraging political engagement at all levels.
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