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Things about United States History I did not learn about from my K-12 stint in the American Public Education System and had to learn about elsewhere.
A thread I will be updating for the rest of my life.
A thread I will be updating for the rest of my life.
Special Item: It wasn't history then, should have been news.
When Philly PD dropped a bomb onto a residential building in 1985 - the MOVE Bombing.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/13/406243272/im-from-philly-30-years-later-im-still-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-move-bombing
I heard no news about it in CA (wouldn't learn about it for years) but I sure did hear about Waco in 1993.
When Philly PD dropped a bomb onto a residential building in 1985 - the MOVE Bombing.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/13/406243272/im-from-philly-30-years-later-im-still-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-move-bombing
I heard no news about it in CA (wouldn't learn about it for years) but I sure did hear about Waco in 1993.
1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre aka The Tulsa Race Riot
When white mobs attacked the Greenwood District in Tulsa - then called "Black Wall Street" and home to a thriving and prosperous Black community - inciting violence and murder and burned it all down. https://www.tulsa2021.org/
When white mobs attacked the Greenwood District in Tulsa - then called "Black Wall Street" and home to a thriving and prosperous Black community - inciting violence and murder and burned it all down. https://www.tulsa2021.org/
Partial Credit to K-12 - barely.
I learned about Japanese-American "Internment" from Dad well before I learned about anything WWII in school so maybe I had impossibly high standards, but on the other hand, it got a single fucking paragraph in our CA State-Approved textbooks.
I learned about Japanese-American "Internment" from Dad well before I learned about anything WWII in school so maybe I had impossibly high standards, but on the other hand, it got a single fucking paragraph in our CA State-Approved textbooks.
Also, nobody mentioned how the US "arranged" for Latin American countries to deport their ethnic Japanese to the US for incarceration in the same Camps. At least Dad got a symbolic $20K in reparations w/ an apology letter in 1990 - they got $5K with theirs in 1998.
You'd think the circumstances that led to the first time SCOTUS applied "Strict Scrutiny" (however improperly) in a case would have merited more attention in US History - but Nope!
Also, I don't remember any of this in the AP US History Curriculum when I took it in 1992/1993.
Also, I don't remember any of this in the AP US History Curriculum when I took it in 1992/1993.
Okay, I went off a bit, but family history impacts, you know? More updates queued up for when I get another chance.
Tangent: We learned about the 1943 LA "Zoot Suit Riots" - clashes between American servicemen stationed or passing through the area and Mexican-American youth - in high school or maybe elementary school. I think that got a hell of a lot more than a paragraph than Internment. 
Violence/conflict between 2 groups of Americans with only passing examination of the reasons for it, but just enough to cast doubt on Mexican-American's legitimacy as Patriotic Americans™? Paragraphs!Examining US Gov't racism? Examining The Trail of Tears? Meh. 1 ¶.
Yeah, maybe don't focus so much on "Mexican-American youth of the day wore suits that used too much fabric", maybe focus more on social tensions on the American homefront and on the battlefield.
Right, lets talk about Eminent Fucking Domain. That's what got me started on this twitter thread rampage.
