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The Roundup Top Ten for November 19, 2021 | History News Network

As A White Student in a Mostly Black School After Brown, I Learned Not to Fear History by Woody Holton "My three and a half years as a racial minority convinced me that one of the biggest beneficiaries of school desegregation was me."  The Elephant Who Could Be a Person by Jill Lepore A petition challenging the keeping of Happy, an Asian Elephant, by the Bronx Zoo raises questions about the legal status of personhood. If it a…