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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/textbook-myths-history-racial-segregation/ by Richard Rothstein 15/12/13 ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/textbook-myths-history-racial-segregation/ by Richard Rothstein 15/12/13 ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | ||
We have paid great attention to Nelson Mandela’s call for forgiveness and reconciliation between South Africa’s former white rulers and its exploited Black majority. But we have paid less attention to the condition that Mandela insisted must underlie reconciliation — truth. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Mandela established, and that Archbishop Desmond Tutu chaired, was designed to contribute to cleansing wounds of the country’s racist history by exposing it to a disinfecting bright light. | We have paid great attention to Nelson Mandela’s call for forgiveness and reconciliation between South Africa’s former white rulers and its exploited Black majority. But we have paid less attention to the condition that Mandela insisted must underlie reconciliation — truth. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Mandela established, and that Archbishop Desmond Tutu chaired, was designed to contribute to cleansing wounds of the country’s racist history by exposing it to a disinfecting bright light. | ||
=====School Segregation in Alabama===== | |||
[https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-school-segregation-in-alabama/ by EJI 28/2/19] | |||
Fifty-five years after Governor George Wallace declared his commitment to preserving white supremacy and maintaining “segregation forever,” Alabama’s state constitution still mandates racially segregated schools. Adopted in 1901, the Alabama constitution was designed to disenfranchise African Americans and maintain the Jim Crow system of the South. The constitution instituted discriminatory voting laws, including literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes. It also required that public education be racially segregated. Section 256 of the Alabama constitution states that “separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children.” | |||
