“Today, Deidre and I aren’t powerless; we have our voices, and we use them, but so many Black children in our school systems can’t,” says writer Danielle Belton, pictured here with her younger sister.
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Deidre was 10 when she found out one of her teachers was a klansman.
It was 1991, and she was in the fifth grade at a school in Florissant, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. She was standing in line in the hallway, waiting to enter her next class, when she overheard her social studies teacher talking to her English teacher about how he had a Ku Klux Klan meeting he was excited to attend that week.
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