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Dallas African American Museum offers African American history classes

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Monday, August 5, 2024   

The African American Museum in Dallas is offering a series of classes on African American history.

The classes are part of a national program called Freedom Schools, sponsored by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

Association President W. Marvin Dulaney, Ph.D, said they're offering the classes because some state legislatures are limiting Black history taught in public schools.

"We're teaching freedom," said Dulaney. "We're preparing people to challenge the legislation by these 22 states that are trying to restrict the teaching of slavery, the teaching of the civil rights movement."

Classes are from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. The Freedom Schools series is also being taught in Florida and Illinois.

Dulaney said they hope to expand to more states.

The series is named after the original Freedom Schools developed during the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

In the schools, Black students learned a school curriculum, as well as how to vote in the upcoming Democratic primary.

Dulaney said the courses will focus on eight topics of African American history.

"We're going to look at African history, slavery," said Dulaney. "We will look at the American Revolution, Civil War, Reconstruction, race relations in this country in the early 20th century. We'll look at the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement and of course obviously we'll do the Civil Rights Movement."

Florida state officials ended Advanced Placement classes in African American history, claiming they were a form of indoctrination.

Dulaney said he hopes educators will use the curriculum in their classrooms.

The classes are free to students and teachers. Others are asked to make a donation to the African American Museum.





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