How black history has changed in my lifetime

I didn’t learn much about black people when I was a kid. Growing up in the South Carolina public school system in the 80’s and early 90’s meant that all you learned about black people was that there was a time when we were slaves, and now we weren’t. We learned that Lincoln freed the slaves, and after that, everything was hunky-dory. Along the way, George Washington Carver did some great things with peanuts and Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an amazing speech.

I do distinctly remember learning about “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags.”