I don’t know about you, but usually my history class sort of raced over WWII when we learned about it. We might learn about the accomplishments of our Founding Fathers, but we’re finally getting a better sense of the fact that they were slaveholders as well. So those kids that once only ever learned about Ellis Island are now learning and hearing about Angel Island as well. Heck, there are elements and angles to it that go well and truly beyond what they’re able to cover in school. For example, I would probably mention right off the bat that though my textbooks made it infinitely clear that American history consists only of a series of distinct separate moments in time (Pilgrims, Colonial American, Revolutionary War, etc. If I were able to sit down with my small, childhood self to render advice about the world, I’d probably just hand myself a series of thoughts about subjects I was forced to learn about in school. Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers
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