For quality education, the struggle must continue – Jackson Advocate

For quality education, the struggle must continue – Jackson Advocate

During the period in which African people were enslaved in the United States of America, it was against the law to teach them to read and write. Those laws, however, were broken in many instances where white slave-abolitionists and enslavers secretly taught them. In some instances the enslaved taught themselves, owing to the fact they descended from well-educated Africans and never lost the desire to be educated and free. As a consequence, as so…