Personal narratives are powerful and often serve to empower others. The African American community is full of stories of men and women who overcame slavery, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination.
The 1776 Unites movement, founded by Bob Woodson, has just released a school curriculum to tell the stories of black success throughout American history, stories that The New York Times’ 1619 Project has chosen to ignore.
The curriculum features “stories and lesson plans that celebrate black excellence, reject victimhood culture, and showcase African Americans, past and present, who have prospered by embracing America’s founding ideals of free enterprise, family, hard work, entrepreneurship, and faith,” Ian Rowe, a senior visiting fellow at the Woodson Center, said Wednesday at a media briefing to unveil the curriculum.
The Woodson Center is a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that says its mission is to “transform lives, schools, and troubled neighborhoods from the inside out.”
The free lessons look back at America’s past with honesty, but also look forward to what can be achieved through hard work and wise choices, said Rowe, who is also an experienced charter school leader and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a D.C.-based public policy think tank.
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