Many children in the US education system are not taught about major Black historical events, such as the Tulsa Race Massacre or Juneteenth, the June 19 commemoration of the end of slavery in the US.

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As the US grapples with a racial reckoning following the killing of George Floyd, educators say that what has and what has not been taught in school have been part of erasing the history of systemic racism in America and the contributions of Black people and minority groups (2/9)

LaGarrett King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University of Missouri, says the history curriculums in schools are meant to tell a story and, in the U.S., that has been one of a “progressive history of the country.” (3/9)

“Really the overarching theme is, ‘Yes, we made mistakes, but we overcame because we are the United States of America,'” says King. “What that has done is it has erased tons of history that would combat that progressive narrative." (4/9)

“So, of course you’re not going to have crucial information such as what happened in Tulsa, you’re not going to have information such as the bombing of a Philadelphia black neighborhood,” King says. (5/9)

In 1921 in Oklahoma, whites looted and destroyed Tulsa's Greenwood District, known for its affluent Black community. Historians believe that as many as 300 Black people were killed. (6/9)

In May 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a bomb onto the compound of MOVE, a black liberation group, killing 6 members, 5 of their children and destroying 65 homes in the neighborhood. (7/9)

It is also important to teach students that the civil rights movement went beyond a few famous figures commonly featured in history books, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, says Jesse Hagopian, an ethnic studies teacher in Seattle. (8/9)

“They’re so often erased, but when students learn that it was young people who were the leaders of the civil rights movement, they can then see themselves as potential actors to transform the world today," Hagopian says. (9/9)