Race Relations Black Poetry Writer
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The Pennsylvania school district taught their students history of another world. The students knew history only about William Penn and other Quakers. I was a part of the Pennsylvania school district for nine years. During those years the only black historians I knew about were Mary McLeod Bethune and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I never knew much about segregation in the South or racial problems. I never knew how racial segregation was such a problem. And I never knew when the problem was resolved. I lived in an all black neighborhood and attended an all black school. There was one white female who attended my school...