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A 1620 Project Is Needed to Overcome the Slavish 1619 Project
Sep 11, 2020 by David Fowler
This week, President Trump threatened to cut off federal education funding to schools that use the 1619 Project. According to the Pulitzer Center, the Project “challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date.” There’s no doubt slavery in the United States has scarred our nation in many ways, but what we need is what I’d call the “1620 Project.”
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