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Students at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa County are banding together to protest their school’s controversial Black History Month program.
On Feb. 8, students flooded the streets outside of the school’s campus after the administration refused to allow a student-run Black History program to teach historical moments that occurred before the 1970s, according to CBS 42. Slavery, the civil rights movement and the Black Panthers were topics that could not be included in the curriculum.
Hundreds of Hillcrest High Schoolers protested outside of the school’s campus, demanding for the aforementioned topics be covered in the course.
Tuscaloosa County Schools Superintendent Keri C. Johnson released a statement about the walkout that read:
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