Penny is swept back in time to February 1955 to learn the importance of black history, a subject she once found boring. In the past, she finds that her school relegates black students to the back of the classroom and there are no lessons in black history being taught.

She also finds that her friendship with Zoey, who's white, is forbidden.

As a Black woman, I can only imagine what life was like back in 1955. I would like to think the same spunk and candor I have now I would have had back then in those challenging times.

This episode of the Proud Family touched home for a number of reasons. One reason was that I believe it is so important to be honest with our history. We remember a time when the achievements of black people were not in school text books. The cartoon even mentions how prior to 1926 black history month didn't exist and it was not until 1926 was a week devoted to black history. In 1976, that week turned into a month.

The school teacher hands out an assignment where each of the students are to come dressed like a person from black history. Penny is Angela Davis, the famous activist, while other classmates have to dress up as Madame C J Walker and Al Sharpton.

The teacher tries to encourage his students by saying "if you don't know where you come from you will never know where you can go". I wonder what impact culture has on a child's development and how people can influence future behaviors through cultural and societal expectations.