Philadelphia Elementary School Made Students Simulate ‘Black Power’ Rally to ‘Free Angela Davis’ From Prison
A Philadelphia public elementary school forced 5th grade students to simulate a “black power rally” to “free Angela Davis from prison.”
Last year, a teacher at the William D. Kelley School designed a social studies curriculum celebrating Davis, a militant communist with ties to the Black Panther Party — as whose guns were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom that left four people dead.
Photographs obtained by journalist Christopher Rufo show that students were also told to “define communist” in favorable terms in an assignment.
“At the end of the unit, the teacher led the ten- and eleven-year-olds into the school auditorium to ‘simulate’ a Black Power rally to ‘free Angela Davis’ from prison, where she had once been held on charges of murder.
