Teacher Stood on Desk to Tell Howroyd Black People Suited Slavery
Janice Bryant Howroyd · ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd · Dec 3, 2018 · at 9:53
ActOne Group founder Janice Bryant Howroyd recounts her experience integrating a previously all-white public high school in Tarboro, North Carolina.
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“We had a teacher who stood up on the desk that day, the first day I went into his history class, and explained so eloquently, if you can even see the paradox of that, how blacks are so suited to slavery.”
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