
Educated or Trained?
When I think about liberation, improvement of condition of the community, about education and about an educated person, I think about Frederick Douglass. He was trained to read, and if he had accepted the training of his teachers as correct for him, he would have remained enslaved, and we would not have had that great champion Liberator. And that brings me to Selma and Dallas County. Selma in the 50’s was the leading city for education in the Black Belt of Alabama and had mo