HINDSIGHT IS 2020: The Importance of Educational Historians in the Era of Black Lives Matter

On this particular day, I decided I wanted to help paint the house-and I thought it would be a good idea to stand in the paint pan and dip my hands in and splash all around. [...]I was covered in white paint from head to toe-and in my memory it seems like it was such a happy experience. [...]it was also during my twelfth year on this earth that my family awoke to a blaze in our front yard and the chants of several teenage boys dancing around a burning cross, laughing and pointing at our house. [...]in this anthology, The Negro Problem, you'll recall that Booker T. Washington (1903) argues for industrial education, asserting that since Black people had vast knowledge of industrial skill as a result of being enslaved, they should capitalize on that knowledge to provide a foundation for economic growth.