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[https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/those-who-dont-learn-history-are-destined-repeat-it by Kenneth W. Chandler 28/6/11 ACLU] | [https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/those-who-dont-learn-history-are-destined-repeat-it by Kenneth W. Chandler 28/6/11 ACLU] | ||
June 25 marked the 70th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt's, Executive Order 8802, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion and national origin in federal defense contracts. It is important to understand both the historical implications of this executive order and how it was reversed by President George W. Bush's "Faith-Based" executive order more than 60 years later. | June 25 marked the 70th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt's, Executive Order 8802, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion and national origin in federal defense contracts. It is important to understand both the historical implications of this executive order and how it was reversed by President George W. Bush's "Faith-Based" executive order more than 60 years later. | ||
=====The Truth About Confederate-Named Schools===== | |||
[https://eji.org/news/the-truth-about-confederate-named-schools/ by EJI 16/6/20] | |||
Every day in the U.S., thousands of children across the country attend schools named in honor of Confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery and racial hierarchy in America. Simply by going to school, young people are taught to embrace the names, likenesses, and symbols of men who fought a brutal war against the U.S. in order to preserve white supremacy. | |||
