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Zinn Ed Project: Teaching People’s History offers free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook. Coord. by non-profit orgs @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
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Watch "United We Stand: The Muhammad Ali Summit" via Uninterrupted
Includes interviews with Jim Brown, John Wooten, & Bobby Mitchell & archival interviews with Ali.
20 min. film highlights solidarity of 1967 and fallout athletes faced in the aftermath. ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIGq...
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A must-read: "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War."
Historian Dr. Edda Fields-Black drew on more than 175 U.S. Civil War pension files of the regiments of Second South Carolina Volunteers, including Tubman’s. ⬇️
bookshop.org/a/7256/97801...
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My mother graduated from library school in the McCarthy era. As a new librarian, she faced an fbi agent inquiring about the borrowing habits of a black jazz musician. She told him to get lost. Librarians are the resistance!
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Please add more examples to this 🧵.
It's true that there was too much compliance then AND now -- which is why it is all the more useful to draw ideas & inspiration from those who resisted McCarthyism and the Red Scare in the face of passivity and complicity by the white media & many institutions.
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Students can learn about people in lesson ⬇️ by high school teacher @ladyofsardines.bsky.social -- many of whom resisted -- despite being targets of the Red Scare.
Louis Jaffe, Emma Tenayuca, Louise Thompson Patterson, and more.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/su...
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There is Green Feather Movement, bravely launched by students in a Baptist study group at Indiana Univ. In response to McCarthy era plan to ban references to Robin Hood in K-12, they spread green feathers (to symbolize Robin Hood) all over campus. This defiance of McCarthyism spread to other cities.
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". . . Yet he firmly said that he would sooner shut down his university than allow anyone to dictate what its students could or could not learn." -- Jelani Cobb via @newyorker.com on Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, president of Howard University from 1926 to 1960
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e.g., @jelaniya.bsky.social ⬇️ "Mordecai Johnson was a Black man leading an academic institution during Jim Crow when representatives from an almost entirely white Congress asked him whether professors with radical sympathies should be allowed to teach at Howard." [continue 🧵]
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Learn more about Drum & Spear Bookstore (they also founded a press and published Eloise Greenfield's first picture book!) and many more Black bookstores in "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" by Katie Mitchell with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni. ⬇️
bookshop.org/a/7256/97805...
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Yes, we should have said Red Scare.
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One of the things I love about this is that it emphasizes the rights of children. Kids are targeted by book bans, and should be centered in conversations about them. To speak up against book banning is to stand up for the rights of young people to find the stories and information they need.
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Great article. Please change the feature photo so we can share it. (Don't platform hate -- showcase teachers and students instead. Photos of T*ump are easy to find. Take the extra time to select an image of the people impacted by his policies. Let's not give free publicity for white supremacists.)
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Now many educators have to take a risk to teach about 1963 Woolworth’s sit-in in context of long, ongoing history of resistance to white supremacy & terrorism.
They can't do it alone. Let students & teachers know we are by their side.
Join us on June 7 to defend #FreedomtoLearn and #TeachTruth ⬇️
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Watch a 6-minute doc from Southern Foodways Alliance "Counter Histories" series. ⬇️
Colia Clark, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Bill Minor, Daphne Chamberlain, & Rev. Ed King talk about #tdih 1963 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in in Jackson.
#TeachOutsideTextbook
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/co...
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Which is why they try to "erase history."
"Virtually every advancement that society has made towards greater equality began with educators. This is why fascists attack teachers." -- Jason Stanley
Defend the #FreedomtoLearn #TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/erasing...
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Learn about Tallahassee Bus Boycott & many more protests of injustice on public transportation from historian Mia Bay, in conversation with Jesse Hagopian, on June 2. Bay will discuss "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance."
Class is free, register ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/traveli...
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Tallahassee Bus Boycott is not in most textbooks. DeSantis + White House criminalize educators who #TeachOutsideTextbook
Let's make defense of teaching people's history visible. Majority support #FreedomtoLearn
Join the June 7 #TeachTruth Day of Action.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/peoples...
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This is a story about a school program in Hinds County, Mississippi, which voted for Harris by a 72%-26% margin. So maybe take the FAFOing comments somewhere else.
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“America’s most farming-dependent counties overwhelmingly backed President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election by an average of 77.7%.” FAFO.