• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    I went to public school in Florida, and can tell you that neither of those names were ever brought to discussion. I only learned about John Brown from YouTube in my later twenties.

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      7 days ago

      I went to public school in Florida and John Brown definitely came up in my history class. But that’s probably teacher and/or school district dependent, a friend of mine grew up in Ocoee and did not learn about the Ocoee massacre in school.

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        4 hours ago

        I was actually in a fairly liberal area in northern Palm Beach. It definitely is district dependant but I would assume mine would be a district to at least mention it.