Soror,
You should have put up some Malcolm X!! That would have been interesting!! My child, at her school is the only African American in her class of 22 children. The teacher who is white, told the children that African American history month was the month of January and that is when they "celebrated" if you will, Black History Month. DId I say my child was new at the school, well I had to "inform" the teacher that was wrong!! But getting to my point, They had the usual people as leaders, my thing is I wanted my child to learn some not so "household" names such as Rev. Jackson, not because he is a Leader, but because of what he has done to keep Black issues in the fore front.Hell, I would even venture to put Clarence Thomas on the board cause he is an African American Supreme Court justice, even though he doesn't realize it. Show that African Americans are things other than some of the less than favorable characters that we so many times are shown to be. That we are lawyers, doctors, teachers, astronauts, brain surgeons, etc......JMHO
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