[Occupymendocino] Why an essay competition?

[John]

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:

So much of our nation's history - and our present - is rooted in the
institution of slavery.

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
<http://links.mp2203.com/a/585/click/5970448/742191085/_d18d72f1b2aab0c1e515
f3e68938d9c81cc34b80/9dcec2179306994bde2527e059c7c7165bd36c59>  yearlong
investigation 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.

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.

https://www.splcenter.org/

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