In the wake of slavery abolition by the Congress 1865, Wendell Phillips, an American abolitionist commented: “we have abolished the slave, but the master remains” (Jay, 196). Thus, the master, especially within the institutions, still has the ability manipulate and control the story. The politics behind who and what certain group or individuals know, is not limited to the history of slavery. In fact, the act of denying slaves education is a politics, that occurs over and over again. Moreover, William Henry Baldwin, a president of Long Island Railroad, once said: “It is a crime for any teacher, white or black, to educate the negro for positions which are not open to him” (Lagemann, 125). Moreover, in a long discussion between Newton Baker,
