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<p style='line-height:13.5pt'><font size=2 color="#272425" face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#272425'>According
to the Southern Poverty Law Center:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:13.5pt'><font size=2 color="#272425" face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#272425'>So much of
our nation's history – and our present – is rooted in the
institution of slavery.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:13.5pt'><font size=2 color="#272425" face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#272425'>Yet,
America's schools are woefully unprepared to teach children about American
slavery and all of the history related to it. That's what the Southern Poverty
Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project discovered after <a
href="http://links.mp2203.com/a/585/click/5970448/742191085/_d18d72f1b2aab0c1e515f3e68938d9c81cc34b80/9dcec2179306994bde2527e059c7c7165bd36c59">a
yearlong investigation</a> that included surveys of more than 1,000 high school
seniors, an examination of state standards and textbooks, and questionnaires to
more than 1,700 social studies teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:13.5pt'><font size=2 color="#272425" face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#272425'>Shockingly,
just 8 percent of high school seniors could identify slavery as the central
cause of the Civil War. Most didn't know that the 13th Amendment formally ended
slavery.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1d1b11" face=Euphemia><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>https://www.splcenter.org/<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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