E.B. Johnson • Writer
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Wednesday 09 April 2025 17:30:56 GMT
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African American Heritage 🔱 :
funny enough child labor laws are changing 🥺 we are regressing
2025-04-09 18:38:57
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Cassiopeia :
Kudos to him for making the best! My grandpa had to drop out in 5th grade to work & care for his siblings. He became an avid reader and was so ashamed, he hid it from the family until his death
2025-04-09 17:53:10
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⋆⭒Travel Spice⋆⭒ :
America was never great 👀
2025-04-10 08:37:47
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Miranda :
My grandma always had a dictionary and thesaurus nearby, She was a farm kid also. ♥️
2025-04-10 14:34:01
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emilyannrachel :
My grandmother kept a dictionary near her ALWAYS. She didn’t get past the third grade.
2025-04-10 18:03:03
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L :
Have seen stories about girls being 12-13 and being married off to an adult because the parents wanted money or so the husband had to support the girl :(
2025-04-09 20:18:31
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Sillme :
My father was oldest of 12. He was forced to drop out to work in coal mines in WV. He learned to read with my siblings & myself when we were in elementary school. He ended up with a Community College
2025-04-09 22:30:22
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felix :
my grandma had to get married when she was 14 because of that
2025-04-10 12:40:56
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lornac01 :
History repeats yet so many are blind to see the cycle coming.
2025-04-09 21:57:02
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☆○~☆~○ :
he was a poor child... 😭💔
2025-04-10 09:45:44
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l :
dropped out in 6th grade. (foster kid) earned my GED in lock up. kept going. have my masters in policy
2025-04-13 00:00:51
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rainyday :
my grandfather, born in 1938 also had to leave school, he had a hard young life. He was the smartest man I ever knew and I wish every day he could have gone to university for maths and physics 😭
2025-04-10 13:35:28
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Britt :
I remember almost every Saturday night my Papa (who also left school at a young age) would do the word scrambles in the paper and called it his homework.
2025-04-10 02:57:07
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☀️Pearl☀️ :
I know someone who was pulled out of school young bc of the cultural revolution in China and he is SO smart but always feels like he is ignorant and behind 😭
2025-04-09 20:01:52
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A Colored Past :
The Grapes of Wrath, though fiction, was not hyperbole or fantasy.
2025-04-11 02:15:58
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elizabeth947 :
This is so sad and so inspiring. For his sake, we can’t go back.
2025-04-10 02:46:46
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xomiamendozaxo :
My great grandfather left school in the sixth grade and before his death he made sure every kid he had and grandchildren, great grandkids graduated high school.
2025-04-11 16:37:47
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Lauren&Hercules💁♀️🐕🦺🍀 :
This what they want for us again.
2025-04-12 04:51:58
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Palone Omi :
My grandma always kept a dictionary on her, so the same reason. She was living alone in central London in 1936, at 13 years old. Dodging pdfs and other weirdos. She was always paranoid about her lack of education.
2025-04-09 17:53:56
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Jo-Anne Morris588 :
Dad went to work at 9 (1942)Mr. Noonan (who was 19) sent lessons to dad via the train to a lumber camp in Quebec.Dad finished grade 11 when he joined the military at 16.Policies were similar here
2025-04-10 11:08:59
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🐞 pea 🐞 :
they turned their head when my poppa was 16 but lied and said he was 18 to be able to send him off to WWII. we are just the pawns.
2025-04-10 08:57:48
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KD Muse 🎶 :
My great grandfather went mad because of what he had to do/saw in WW2. My dad still remembers waking up to him screaming from night terrors. The govt paid him a pittance. His wife worked 2 jobs 😓
2025-04-10 18:19:41
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다나애 🦋 :
They are trying to do this again- relaxing child labor laws, and even trying to get rid of them all together 😔
2025-04-10 18:29:44
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⚖Erika Advocate⚖ :
thank you for sharing his story. he sounded like a great and smart man.
2025-04-09 22:35:10
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Perry :
I’m flabbergasted because we have a whole “Great Depression” label for most of the 1930s. It wasn’t good for anyone except the fasc
2025-04-11 01:47:55
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