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Old May 28th 04, 09:31 PM
leslie
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Bill Denton ) wrote:
: The problem is, that's the same sort of revisionism being taught to
: American school children.
:

And has been for some time.

I graduated from high school (Tulsa, Oklahoma) in 1963. None of my history
courses covered any of these topics in school:

o Internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during WW II
o Tulsa's 1921 race riot [1]
o Cherokees and other tribes owned black slaves [2]
o Near-treasonous behavior of corporations who violated embargoes
on sales of goods and technology to Japan shortly before WW II [3]


--Jerry Leslie
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[1]
http://www.forgottenhistory.org/exhibits/tulsa.html
Tulsa Race Riot (1921)

[2] http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/slave_rv.htm
CHEROKEE SLAVE REVOLT OF 1842

[3] http://www.wvculture.org/history/jou...h/wvh55-6.html
Senator Harley M. Kilgore and Japan's World War II Business Practices