'Stop the Black attack': Civil rights attorney threatens to sue over African American Studies
Source: Tallahassee Democrat
'Stop the Black attack': Civil rights attorney threatens to sue over African American Studies
Douglas Soule
Tallahassee Democrat
Published 5:11 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2023 | Updated 5:41 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2023
TALLAHASSEE — Standing at a podium in the heart of Florida's Capitol, renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump’s threat was loud and clear: If Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration did not allow the Advanced Placement African American Studies course in state classrooms, legal action would follow.
“We’re here to give notice to Gov. DeSantis that if he does not negotiate with the College Board to allow AP African American Studies to be taught in the classrooms across the state of Florida, that these three young people will be the lead plaintiffs [in litigation],” Crump said during a Wednesday "Stop the Black Attack" rally in the Capitol's fourth floor rotunda.
He was joined at the podium by Black Democratic lawmakers, advocacy leaders and those three young people, who are high school students in Leon County.
“I have not learned much about the history or culture of my people outside of my parents and close relatives,” said Elijah Edwards, a tenth-grader at SAIL High School in Tallahassee. “After I heard there might be an African American Studies AP class, I was ecstatic.”
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Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/25/lawsuit-threatened-over-desantis-ap-african-american-studies-rejection/69838457007/
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