Southern schools' history textbooks: A long history of deception,

[Guno צְבִי]

For much of the 20th century, Southern classrooms treated Black history — when they touched the subject at all — as a sideshow to a white-dominated narrative.

Teachers taught students to sing Dixie and memorize long lists of forgettable governors. Civil War battles got described in detail. Textbooks celebrated the violent overthrow of democratically-elected, multiracial governments. Lynching went unmentioned. The evils of slavery got cursory acknowledgments — and quick dismissals.

“It should be noted that slavery was the earliest form of social security in the United States,” a 1961 Alabama history textbook said, falsely.

The same forces that took over public spaces to erect monuments to the Confederacy and its white supremacist tenets also kept a tight grip on the history taught to Southern pupils. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) spent decades shaping and reshaping textbooks to put a strong emphasis on Lost Cause views of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which glorified the white supremacist foundations of the Confederacy and was used to justify segregation and authoritarian Jim Crow governance.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-textbooks-long-history-deception/3809954001/

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Textbooks that said Black Southerners were content to be second-class citizens were in use in Virginia well into the 1980s. Mississippi students were not required to learn about the civil rights movement before 2011.

 

[evince]

Texas ordered the largest chunk of textbooks due to their large population


So Texas could effect what all school children acrossed the nation got handed


They made sure Texas ordered racist versions of history

They were cheaper to buy due to the volume those book manufacturers were set up to print huge volume already


It meant many others just ordered what Texas picked

It’s why the republicans like Tom delay worked so hard to steal Texas away from the Democrats long ago

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

For much of the 20th century, Southern classrooms treated Black history — when they touched the subject at all — as a sideshow to a white-dominated narrative.

Teachers taught students to sing Dixie and memorize long lists of forgettable governors. Civil War battles got described in detail. Textbooks celebrated the violent overthrow of democratically-elected, multiracial governments. Lynching went unmentioned. The evils of slavery got cursory acknowledgments — and quick dismissals.

“It should be noted that slavery was the earliest form of social security in the United States,” a 1961 Alabama history textbook said, falsely.

The same forces that took over public spaces to erect monuments to the Confederacy and its white supremacist tenets also kept a tight grip on the history taught to Southern pupils. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) spent decades shaping and reshaping textbooks to put a strong emphasis on Lost Cause views of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which glorified the white supremacist foundations of the Confederacy and was used to justify segregation and authoritarian Jim Crow governance.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-textbooks-long-history-deception/3809954001/

been there, was taught that. the good old War of Northern Aggression. yankees trying to interfere in State's Rights and usurping God's will that whites own inferior black folks. the texas act of secession clearly states it is God's will that white people own black people and it is worth fighting and dying for.

 

[Flash]

been there, was taught that. the good old War of Northern Aggression. yankees trying to interfere in State's Rights and usurping God's will that whites own inferior black folks. the texas act of secession clearly states it is God's will that white people own black people and it is worth fighting and dying for.

We weren't taught any of that crap in Texas. I taught U. S. History 1967-71 and nothing like that was included.

I did make my students put on whiteface when we sang Dixie.

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

We weren't taught any of that crap in Texas. I taught U. S. History 1967-71 and nothing like that was included.

I did make my students put on whiteface when we sang Dixie.

you must have taught in one of those colored schools we white kids heard about....

 

[TOP]

Texas ordered the largest chunk of textbooks due to their large population


So Texas could effect what all school children acrossed the nation got handed


They made sure Texas ordered racist versions of history

They were cheaper to buy due to the volume those book manufacturers were set up to print huge volume already


It meant many others just ordered what Texas picked

It’s why the republicans like Tom delay worked so hard to steal Texas away from the Democrats long ago

"So Texas could effect what all school children acrossed the nation got handed" ...How did that work out?

 

[CFM]

For much of the 20th century, Southern classrooms treated Black history — when they touched the subject at all — as a sideshow to a white-dominated narrative.

Teachers taught students to sing Dixie and memorize long lists of forgettable governors. Civil War battles got described in detail. Textbooks celebrated the violent overthrow of democratically-elected, multiracial governments. Lynching went unmentioned. The evils of slavery got cursory acknowledgments — and quick dismissals.

“It should be noted that slavery was the earliest form of social security in the United States,” a 1961 Alabama history textbook said, falsely.

The same forces that took over public spaces to erect monuments to the Confederacy and its white supremacist tenets also kept a tight grip on the history taught to Southern pupils. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) spent decades shaping and reshaping textbooks to put a strong emphasis on Lost Cause views of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which glorified the white supremacist foundations of the Confederacy and was used to justify segregation and authoritarian Jim Crow governance.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-textbooks-long-history-deception/3809954001/

They taught the important things and ignored what wasn't worth teaching.

 

[Flash]

you must have taught in one of those colored schools we white kids heard about....

Some of the time. I was in the National Teacher Corps for a while.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

How does this compare to the growing list of Leftist history books that teach history by deception and lies in use in schools across the US today?