Michael Phillips

While CRT is studied in some graduate schools and law programs, it hasn't been taught at the grade school level where the outrage has been directed.

While CRT is studied in some graduate schools and law programs, it hasn't been taught at the grade school level where the outrage has been directed.

While CRT is studied in some graduate schools and law programs, it hasn't been taught at the grade school level where the outrage has been directed.

Rufo's timing could not have been more perfect. The artificial CRT panic broke out during the COVID pandemic. Parents already felt frustration and fury about the hardships of campus closings, remote learning and mask mandates.

Rufo's timing could not have been more perfect. The artificial CRT panic broke out during the COVID pandemic. Parents already felt frustration and fury about the hardships of campus closings, remote learning and mask mandates.

Rufo's timing could not have been more perfect. The artificial CRT panic broke out during the COVID pandemic. Parents already felt frustration and fury about the hardships of campus closings, remote learning and mask mandates.

Now convinced that their children were being taught to scapegoat white people for all the country's problems, parents across the country exploded in rage at local school boards. Reuters reported on one meeting that turned violent in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Now convinced that their children were being taught to scapegoat white people for all the country's problems, parents across the country exploded in rage at local school boards. Reuters reported on one meeting that turned violent in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Now convinced that their children were being taught to scapegoat white people for all the country's problems, parents across the country exploded in rage at local school boards. Reuters reported on one meeting that turned violent in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Textbooks before the 1950s and 1960s civil rights era were explicitly and astonishingly white supremacists. School books in the South, for instance, portrayed Confederates as gallant gentlemen fighting for a noble lost cause. This influenced popular culture, as we see in films like Gone with the Wind.

Textbooks before the 1950s and 1960s civil rights era were explicitly and astonishingly white supremacists. School books in the South, for instance, portrayed Confederates as gallant gentlemen fighting for a noble lost cause. This influenced popular culture, as we see in films like Gone with the Wind.

Textbooks before the 1950s and 1960s civil rights era were explicitly and astonishingly white supremacists. School books in the South, for instance, portrayed Confederates as gallant gentlemen fighting for a noble lost cause. This influenced popular culture, as we see in films like Gone with the Wind.

Meanwhile, school kids were taught that abolitionists who wanted to end slavery before the Civil War were terrorists who needlessly plunged the country into civil war. And this, too, steeped into the public imagination of movies like Santa Fe Trail, starring Van Heflin.

Meanwhile, school kids were taught that abolitionists who wanted to end slavery before the Civil War were terrorists who needlessly plunged the country into civil war. And this, too, steeped into the public imagination of movies like Santa Fe Trail, starring Van Heflin.

Meanwhile, school kids were taught that abolitionists who wanted to end slavery before the Civil War were terrorists who needlessly plunged the country into civil war. And this, too, steeped into the public imagination of movies like Santa Fe Trail, starring Van Heflin.

According to the myths promoted first in schools, then echoed in mass entertainment, slavery would have gone away eventually if only white slave-owning southerners had been left alone to figure it out themselves. Screenplay writers have often echoed what they heard in the classroom, as we see in this scene from the 1940 film Santa Fe Trail.

According to the myths promoted first in schools, then echoed in mass entertainment, slavery would have gone away eventually if only white slave-owning southerners had been left alone to figure it out themselves. Screenplay writers have often echoed what they heard in the classroom, as we see in this scene from the 1940 film Santa Fe Trail.

According to the myths promoted first in schools, then echoed in mass entertainment, slavery would have gone away eventually if only white slave-owning southerners had been left alone to figure it out themselves. Screenplay writers have often echoed what they heard in the classroom, as we see in this scene from the 1940 film Santa Fe Trail.

Here, Raymond Massey plays John Brown, a white abolitionist who tried to start a slave rebellion in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859. Massey portrays him as a thoroughly crazed maniac, while Errol Flynn depicts future Confederate General J.E.B. Seward as sweetly rational.

Here, Raymond Massey plays John Brown, a white abolitionist who tried to start a slave rebellion in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859. Massey portrays him as a thoroughly crazed maniac, while Errol Flynn depicts future Confederate General J.E.B. Seward as sweetly rational.