Learning From the Past ; Teaching the African-American Experience Isn't so Easy

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Vickram Gidwani closed his eyes, covering them with his hands. "Imagine you are a slave," his fourth-grade teacher Michelle Supper instructed, reading from a Web site. "Your body, your time, your very breath belongs to a farmer in 1850s Maryland."

Vickram, 9, rubbed his eyes and held his breath for a moment. Bondage, abolitionist and fugitive - his new vocabulary words - pingponged through his mind as he tried to picture a life unlike his own.

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Learning From the Past ; Teaching the African-American Experience Isn't so Easy

Vickram and the rest of his class were beginning an interactive session about the Underground Railroad at Luther Lee Emerson School in Demarest.

Luther Lee, and every other elementary school across New Jersey, gingerly navigate the month of February. Every Black Histo...

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