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The Most Dangerous Thing in the World: Why Education and Literacy Have Always Been Worth Fighting For
Aug 17, 2026 Jeff Baxter 0 Comment adult literacy statistics America, American education crisis 2025, American literacy crisis, Annie E Casey Foundation literacy, Bobby J. Donaldson civil rights education, Brown v Board of Education education, civic literacy America, civil rights documentary education, civil rights education legacy, civil rights history education, documentary film education, documentary film literacy, Dr. Scott Glenn documentary, Dr. Scott Glenn Through His Lens, education and literacy importance, education social progress, educational equality civil rights, educational equality modern America, educational justice history, Frederick Douglass literacy freedom, historical literacy suppression, Jim Crow literacy tests, Jim Crow school underfunding, literacy and democracy, literacy and democracy connection, literacy as freedom history, literacy civic engagement, literacy freedom connection history, literacy power and freedom, NAACP education desegregation, Plessy v Ferguson separate but equal, reading decline children America, reading decline modern society, reading proficiency statistics, screen time reading decline, slave codes literacy laws, third grade reading proficiency, Through His Lens civil rights film, Through His Lens documentary, Thurgood Marshall education equality Other ProjectsThere is a question worth sitting with before we go any further. If education were simply a practical tool, a means of acquiring skills that make people more economically productive, why would anyone in power ever work so hard to prevent ordinary people from accessing it? Why would the antebellum South make it a criminal offense to teach an enslaved person to read? Why would the architects of Jim Crow design an entire system of deliberate educationa...
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