to teach her students that black people were never oppressed, and that slavery wasn’t as bad as it really was. Harlan Granger, the racist antagonist, told her, ‘“Well, if it ain’t in here, then you got no right teaching it. This book’s approved by the Board of Education and you’re expected to teach what’s in it,”’ when Mary was teaching her class about the cruelty of slavery. Miss Crocker changed their behavior by accepting the little white lies told to her, but Mary remained unchanged even if the…
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