The Long Road From Slavery To 21st Century

Information is given on Africa and the Africans before they were captured and estimates the number captured and imported. It list over sixty emancipation heroes, their accomplishments, 400 inventions, successful open heart surgery in 1893, jockeys success at the Kentucky Derby, cowboys that rode the trails and the city of Chicago was started by an African American.

Schools did not develop in psychological, emotional, social, linguistic and cognitive skills that bonded parents, school and teacher. The busing was to schools with an authoritarian and hierarchical structure and did not give differently developed or underdeveloped students skill and confidence to develop a bond between home and school to support learning. Their shared background information and cultural literacy was missing.