History shows that  to be black and educated was a NO! NO!. In order to keep a group of people in bondage, ignorance had to be the tool to control a people into believing that they had no rights and that their lives didn’t matter.  To be educated in those days meant that an African-American child and/or adult would become a potential  threat.

They knew education was the key to success and that once a man, woman and child became educated the chains of bondage and slavery would no longer hold any  value….

Pictured above is a photo taken from one of my many book collections at my home of a group of African-American children sneaking to read a book. As I sat and ate dinner I glanced at the picture of black children studying their lessons on a Southern street corner in 1867 (The Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage…