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...month at all. I understand this reasoning, and I applaud the efforts of the black community to (once again) make something with almost nothing. If it weren't for Black History Month, there would be a lot more people thinking they know American history without knowing the names Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver or even Martin Luther King...
Children who take tours of the landmark walk upon the building's original 19th-century floor planks and enjoy puppet shows with three-feet puppets portraying escaped slaves Harriet Tubman and Lewis Hayden, all recreating the Underground Railroad...
...grant was approved. She is the most prominent of conservative critics who charge that National Standards offers what Cheney calls "a warped view of American history" and that its criteria for including or excluding landmark events and persons are "politically correct to a fare-thee-well." For example, Harriet Tubman, the African American who helped organize the pre-Civil War underground railroad, is cited six times in the guide, whereas Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is mentioned only once in passing. Students are expected to know about the 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights (mentioned nine times...
...virtue itself becomes a diverse and embracing idea. The hundreds of selections in his book -- poems, essays, fairy tales, folklore, short stories -- are themselves multicultural, representing a variety of peoples, from Dead White Males, such as Aesop, Plato, Jefferson and Tolstoy, to imposing American blacks, such as Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., to the Indian authors of the epic Mahabharata...
...then there was Professor Anita Hill, the poised daughter of so many generations of black women who have been burned carrying torches into the battle for principle. The cause of civil rights and social justice has so often fallen to them to defend. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. Rosa Parks was a tired seamstress who shoved history forward by refusing to give up her seat on the bus. Mechelle Vinson was a bank teller who, having grown weary of a boss who she said forced her to trade sex for professional survival...