Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy Sports & Outdoors In Fatherless No More

In Fatherless No More

Moving from Brooklyn bars to San Francisco dance floors

Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya loves listening to rock

on city streets

Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy Sports & Outdoors In Fatherless No MoreThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South. Everyone understood that knowledge was power: power