“There was a powerful silence about race and racism and no mention of antisemitism or the Holocaust,” she once wrote. " ‘Bad history’ was best forgotten. The Civil War was the War Between the States and we were taught how the South won the major battles. In my Tennessee history class I did not learn who lost the Civil War.” As a Jewish girl in a segregated southern state, she was told to not drink from water fountains marked “colored.” And in her classrooms, everyone seemed to know what could and couldn’t be said. To create Facing History and Ourselves...
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