The Daily World

The Diversity and Equity Center at Grays Harbor College will host a lecture Thursday morning on African American History, presented by Dan Johnson, former assistant director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center.

The talk begins at 11 a.m. in the Schermer Building, Room 4134, and the public is invited.

Johnson, an educator for 30 years in the Washington State Community College System, developed a passion for conveying the untold story of African Americans and the associations they provided to his early “Jim Crow” experiences in Houston, Texas. Johnson says mainstream American History curriculum is inadequate on the subject.

Some of the points he plans to cover and questions he will address include:

• What is your knowledge/impressions of the presence of Africans in America?

• What was the American “justification” for slavery?

• What was the Founding Fathers’ perspective regarding slavery?

• Real patriots? Who are the untold African American heroes of the American Revolution?

• What is the real story of “Forty Acres and a Mule?”

• Who is considered the father of African American History Month?