Attucks: The School that Opened a City
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Black History month is important for many reasons.
We should never forget our history and we should always seek ways to overcome it.
Watch our Truth in Two to find out why (full text below).
Overcoming injustice means coming over to secure justice for others.
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FULL TEXT:
I sat in stunned silence. I could not believe what I was seeing. I could not understand what I was hearing. The atrocity cut to the core of my being. I often sat with my head bowed. More often than not, tears welling in my eyes. What was the event that overcame my emotions?
Harold HB Bell and I have been working together four years through radio. I accompanied HB on opening night when the documentary Attucks: The School that Opened a City was first shown at the Indianapolis Walker Theatre. I met the director Ted Green. HB and I had our picture taken together with him. I met folks from around the city and nation, people whose lives had been changed by Crispus Attucks High School. I was just learning about Attucks, the movie that so stirred my sensibilities.
The online promotional page for the documentary includes these words, [Quote] “When all-black Crispus Attucks High School was built in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan ran Indiana and its capital. The governor, the majority of the state legislature, the mayor and the entire School Board were Klansmen or Klan-backed. The school, Crispus Attucks, was designed to fail. But it did not fail. For more than 40 years, the students who came of age within the brick walls of Attucks overcame a system designed to belittle them. They became surgeons and teachers, scientists and politicians, world-class musicians and athletes.” [End-quote] Basketball legend, Oscar Robertson was an Attucks alumni as was Army General Colin Powell.
It is an important story to watch during Black History Month, or any month. HB and all of us at the Comenius Institute encourage you to watch the documentary Attucks: The School that Opened a City. And be prepared with a box of Kleenex and a repentant heart.
For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, president of the Comenius Institute, sadly and personally seeking truth wherever it’s found.