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Mount Pleasant is the oldest structure associated with a Black congregation in the city of Statesville. The church is also the only African American edifice in Statesville that is listed
Robert “Bob” Ernest Davis, 82, of Blanket
and we don't, as americans, tend to think we're philosophical, and we tend to think we don't have a philosophy; we j--we just do what works. but what i try to show in this book is that, over 100 years, there has been a philosophy at work. it's a philosophy that, in most cases, parents are not in sync with and even teachers are not in sync with, and it's been a raining down of theory--and in many cases, bad theory--on the schools. so that it's 100 years of arguing about who should be taught and what should they be taught and how--how we should run schools. and i guess one purpose was ...