The resurgence is a direct response to restrictive educational policies on Black History in America’s public schools. In the mid-1960s, when the Supreme Court ordered the integration of public schools, states in the Deep South were incensed. Not only did they refuse to comply, but they also banned Black schools from teaching American history between 1860 and 1875—the years between the start of the Civil War and the end of Reconstruction. In 2022, when Southern red states followed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s restrictions on teaching Black history in classrooms, Black communities in the Sunshine State and beyond found a solution…