Why were books by black authors not taught in mississippi schools?

Because Mississippi is a white state they dont want the kids to know how they treated black people all those years ago but if you think about it WW1 wasnt that long ago.

they wanted the u.s. to fight on the side of the central powers.

donald carl johanson (born june 28, 1943) is an american paleoanthropologist. he is known for discovering – with yves coppens and maurice taieb – the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "lucy" in the afar triangle region of hadar, ethiopia.

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i googled "who was kolson johanson" and this is the answer i found.

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