BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoI think the biggest disservice that I received from my US Public School education was being taught that the civil rights movement was something from the past.message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1387arrow-down17
arrow-up1380arrow-down1message-squareI think the biggest disservice that I received from my US Public School education was being taught that the civil rights movement was something from the past.BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-25 hours agoIt always bugs me a little when Labor Day rolls around and people just kind of ignore how workers’ rights were literally fought and died for, but as you said, they don’t teach us about Blair Mountain or Haymarket Square on purpose. And who was basically always on the wrong side? The US military.
It always bugs me a little when Labor Day rolls around and people just kind of ignore how workers’ rights were literally fought and died for, but as you said, they don’t teach us about Blair Mountain or Haymarket Square on purpose.
And who was basically always on the wrong side?
The US military.