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Black Panthers?! Ooo! Scary! (lemmy.world)

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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I grew up in the Bay Area (Silicon Valley), and my AP US History class in 2006-2007 included Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" and in-depth discussions of groups like the Black Panthers. Our teacher was open about being a socialist and when we talked about things like the Red Scare, he made a point to really humanize the victims of the politics of the time like the Rosenbergs.

(Edit: It is important to note that our discussions of the Rosenbergs in class pre-dated the release of the classified information regarding their actions. Our teacher's approach was to include information about who they were as people instead of the boogeymen they were presented as in the standard textbook.)