President Obama, thank you so much for writing this. I’m running my own effort to lift-up racial justice history at my website CrossCulturalSolidarity.com, and have written about that effort here… I think it’s deeply in alignment with the thoughts you express:

https://medium.com/@burnett-lynn/ive-launched-an-effort-to-build-200-racial-justice-history-resources-f9533a72e565