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Before compulsory schooling laws in 1852, the U.S. had a literacy rate of nearly 100%. The hosts argue that the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations transformed the education system to produce "obedient workers" rather than independent thinkers. They reference the Norman Dodd investigation, which revealed a plan to alter the teaching of American history to favor a globalist agenda.
The historical rivalry between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington represented two different paths for Black progress: Du Bois's top-down intellectual agitation versus Washington's bottom-up industrial education. While Du Bois was backed by liberal academic institutions, Washington received millions in funding from Gilded Age elites like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie to establish Southern Black schools.
