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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Stranglehold on Black Education

One of McCoy's first acts as head of the Ocean Hill Brownsville District was to appoint Herman Ferguson, the man indicted for plotting to kill two moderate civil rights activists. Ferguson had a long and public record of extremist racial rhetoric even beyond that IS201 Malcolm rally. In March 1968, Ferguson published an article in The Guardian in which he wrote that it wasn't enough for black people to get control of their schools. Once we really take this control, he said, we must be prepared to teach our black youth how to survive inThe hostile society that we do not yet control.

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