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Do You Believe That The 1619 Project Should Be Incorporated Into School Curriculums?
Sharon Nix & Liberty Surveys
November 12, 2023
Do You Believe That The 1619 Project Should Be Incorporated Into School Curriculums?
Here’s the Scoop
The 1619 Project, a historical narrative that reframes American history around the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on American soil, has ignited a cultural firestorm.
Proponents hail it as a long-overdue reckoning with America’s original sin of slavery, while critics decry it as an attempt to rewrite history through a lens of division and ideological bias.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning work, led by New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, has been proposed to be part of educational curriculums, aiming to cast the legacy of slavery as the central thread of American history.