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Growing up in Indiana, they didn't teach black history, and I turned out just fine except for not knowing about Jim Crow or the Tuskegee syphilis experiment or redlining or the Tulsa race massacre or Ruby Bridges, or lynching, or Malcolm X or the Black Panther movement or the MOVE bombing or...
I grew up in Wyoming. We didn't get most of that well...
We did hear about lynching and Malcolm X. Not much in details about either, mind, but we were told that both had existed. They glossed over anything that Malcolm X stood for, or actually said, or did....
As for lynching... We learned the word.
The people of Tulsa didn't know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Until that HBO show Watchmen I never heard of it.
Ask my wife who was born and raised here and my ex wife both had no clue and they went to school in the Tulsa area.
It fucked up but Until HBO shine a light on it they had plan to never educate anyone about it.
To be fair, I grew up in the north east and went to a very good public school and never learned about ANY of that until I went to college/uni and started taking real history courses.
Is black history not taught inside the main history classes? Slavery, civil rights, etc etc? What is the argument for these classes?
It is not - "main" history classes gloss over "messy" details. You should see what we don't learn about Christopher Columbus, for example.
You mean the guy who was too Evil even for the spanish monarchy?
They say it disappeared in the 1920s. It didn't. It just went underground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Klan