CNN.com - Struggle to get�black history�into classrooms - Feb 9, 2006: "PISCATAWAY, New Jersey (AP) -- Assemblyman William Payne recalls the first book he heard as a kindergartner in the 1940s, and never forgot the black stereotypes that filled the 19th century children's story.
'You grow up with these subliminal messages that everything good is white,' Payne recalled, his words bubbling forth with angry urgency. 'It is so hurtful that these things were sanctioned by the Board of Education.'"
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