It helped the school district, encouraging them to make African-American History Month more important. School superintendents have to be committed to creating African-American history as mandatory learning components for all children. I believe schoolchildren are the key. Hardamon gets no argument from Phyllis Brown, an English teacher who organized and led tours by Edison High School students to the exhibition at the African American Museum. They wanted to know why our new history books have so little to say about slavery.
Some teachers take a lot of time and use outside sources to teach about the history of slavery.
For at least some of the kids, the expedition proved to be a reality check. Brown passed along notes from students about their impressions.