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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Dardaine-Ragguet, Patricia; And Others – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1994
Born in Trinidad in 1901, C. L. R. James challenged the formal education system--resisting authority, refuting colonial historical writing, and refusing to seek tertiary schooling. A self-made scholar and activist, he started his own university and struggled to help peasant workers; the poor; and non-Caucasians cheated by colonialism, capitalism,…
Descriptors: Activism, Biographies, Blacks, Capitalism