In August 2022 I wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post on why Virginia’s history standards should include the story of William Mahone and the Readjusters—one of the most successful bi-racial political parties of the nineteenth century. Last week I learned that the latest draft of the state’s proposed new standards now includes this little known, but im…
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