Students speak out about controversial AP African American Studies course: "History that everybody should know"
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The questions started as soon as the last students trickled into Donald Singleton's first period Advanced Placement African American Studies class on a recent morning. For nearly two hours, Singleton, who has taught at Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School in Los Angeles for 26 years, challenged his students on their own perceptions of history.
"What have you learned?" he asked the class. "What do you know about the role of African women during slavery?"
"It was entirely permissible to rape a slave, kill a slave, hang a slave, lynch a slave," responded senior Hassan Wright. "But if you taught them to read, you were just as bad as a slave."
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