Learning Your Own History Matters In 2020

Educate yourself by interviewing your parents, relatives, and historians, and visit a local or nearby University library for materials.

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“The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.” — -Maya Angelou.

My Sociology 101 class taught me the importance of a well-researched history; also, how ignorance can be expensive.

In my freshwoman class, a Scripture Union classmate was loud, and disapproved of my choice of clothing — jeans trousers.

The professor walked in and listened to her stupid argument — her Bible and her Pastors were against women wearing pants. The professor laughed and assigned the class a research project — the history of fashion in Nigeria. The result — the trouser was not part of men's wear.

What do you know about your great-grandmother, the US Slave Trade/Slavery, Native and African-Americans, Virginia Breeding Farm, The Wet Nurse Slave, Osu in Nigeria, Nigerian Women's War, the Caste System in India, South African Apartheid, The Black Wall Street, Japanese Comfort Women, British Colonization, Holocaust, and the defunct Soviet Union?

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