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 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.
To read more of the Southern Poverty Law Center's report, click here.
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