Youth must know the histories of freedom struggles beyond MLK and Mandela.
Recent studies in the U.S., for example, report that the younger generation’s knowledge about even the civil rights movement of the 1960s — let alone the generations-old history of black resistance to unjust laws designed to keep them “in their place” — is practically non-existent. They might know about Martin Luther King Jr., and maybe Rosa Parks. But what about all the others who led President Barack Obama to say that he stood “on the shoulders of giants“?
