(EDUCATION) WHITE WALTER Anti Negro Propaganda in School Tex

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(EDUCATION.) WHITE, WALTER. Anti-Negro Propaganda in School Textbooks. 18 pages. 8vo, original printed white self-wrappers; covers lightly toned. New York: NAACP, 1939

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The NAACP's Walter White takes on the school textbooks in American public schools that not only left out, or re-wrote whole chapters of American history, but deliberately added in common mythology about the Negro: "the Negro is a child-like race with a disposition to laugh at his troubles.' He also points out the role of the movies in perpetuating these myths. A very early concerted effort to address this combined crime of omission and crime of commission, aspects of which continue to this day