What Mississippi Educators Are Telling Students About State Sanctioned Confederate Heritage Month

What Mississippi Educators Are Telling Students About State Sanctioned Confederate Heritage Month

Jacob Walker’s students grew up seeing the Confederate flag everywhere — on T-shirts, on keychains, and on cars. He teaches Mississippi studies, world history, government, and economics at a Mississippi high school. After Gov. Phil Bryant’s controversial decision to (R) declare April Confederate Heritage Month, Walker read his students, who are mostly African American, the language of the proclamation.

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