#tdih 1917
17-yr-old Carmelita Torres, who crossed U.S.-Mexico border daily to clean houses in El Paso, refused to take U.S. Customs disinfectant "bath." (One chemical used was Zyklon B.)
Protest became known as Bath Riots.
Read ⬇️ 🧵#TeachOutsideTextbook
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bath-riots
17-yr-old Carmelita Torres, who crossed U.S.-Mexico border daily to clean houses in El Paso, refused to take U.S. Customs disinfectant "bath." (One chemical used was Zyklon B.)
Protest became known as Bath Riots.
Read ⬇️ 🧵#TeachOutsideTextbook
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bath-riots
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Teachers can't defend the #FreedomtoLearn alone.
We need everyone to testify at school board meetings, write op-eds, demand media coverage, campaign to unseat elected officials who are architects of these attacks, run for office, & more.
15 Mexican-Americans (youngest was 15) were pulled from homes and executed by Texas Rangers.
A schoolteacher helped document & expose story.
Read ⬇️ and at @refusing2forget.bsky.social site on state sanctioned violence on border.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/porvenir-massacre/
Newspapers did not name the 28 Mexican laborers who died.
"Deportees" ballad by Woody Guthrie led to belated recognition.
Lyrics and lesson on mass deportation of Mexican Americans during Great Depression.⬇️
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/plane-wreck-at-los-gatos/