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1 day ago

For the resources on the Vietnam War. — Las Vegas, Nevada I’m interested in climate resources. — Fair Lawn, New Jersey I would love more ideas for teaching Reconstruction! — Littleton, Colorado I was looking up ways to teach about the Red Scare, and the activity I saw here is the most compelling! I’m excited to try it out. — Bronx, New York

#FridayReport: This week 157 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Littleton, CO; Las Vegas, NV; Fair Lawn, NJ; Bronx, NY; Fort Worth, TX; Ranchester, WY; & many more cities.

#TeachTruth

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4 days ago

March 11, 1861: Confederate Constitution Adopted The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was adopted a month before the Civil War started.

The Confederate Constitution, adopted #tdih 1861, protected slavery, stating “No law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.”

Yet people still claim the Civil War wasn’t about slavery.

Teach outside the textbook. #TeachTruth
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5 days ago

Students Address Racial Justice at "Model Gary" Convention Drawing inspiration from the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, New Jersey students and teachers organize a convention to discuss issues facing Black communities today.

NJ high school teacher & ZEP Prentiss Charney Fellow T. J. Whitaker co-leads a Model Gary Convention (like Model U.N.) each year for students who spend months researching & prepping their platforms. #TeachTruth

Read about it in @rethinkingschools.bsky.social ⬇️
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1 week ago

I want to be a better teacher. — Chula Vista, California I would love to use the lessons for How the Word Is Passed. — Detroit, Michigan I am currently teaching a unit on Palestine and Israel, and I would love to learn from the educators here who have developed curriculum on this topic. — Chicago, Illinois To bridge the gap between traditional curricula and the complex, honest narratives that shape our world. Elementary students are capable of — and deserve — an education that moves beyond mythology to explore real history. — Arvin, California

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This week 206 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Arvin, Chula Vista, San Jose, and San Rafael, CA; Chicago, IL; Huntertown, IN; Detroit, MI; Canaan, NH; & many more cities.

#TeachTruth

Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵

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1 week ago

Text on blue background: Laws across the country are making criminals out of educators who teach this history. #TeachTruth

Many legislatures & the president have tried to criminalize teaching honestly. They ban "divisive concepts," including that U.S. is "fundamentally or systematically racist."

Under those EO's & laws, can teachers invite students to read & analyze Dred Scott ruling by U.S. Supreme Court? #TeachTruth

Zinn Education Project

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1 week ago

Feminist 250 America turns 250 this year. Who actually built this democracy? Founding Feminists centers the women and gender-nonconforming people written out of the origin story—from Phillis Wheatley to Ona Judge ...

For more resources to #TeachTruth about the American Revolution on this 250th anniversary, check out @msmagazine.com's Feminist 250 initiative.
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Zinn Education Project

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1 week ago

Wonderful article by our colleague Greg Wickenkamp about rural educators who, despite censorship campaigns and laws, "take pains to present history in all its complexity, encouraging students to develop their own informed stances through critical thinking." ⬇️ #TeachTruth

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1 week ago

March 5, 1868: Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson Begins The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the Senate.

#tdih 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in U. S. Senate.

"The transubstantiation of Andrew Johnson was complete . . . the tragedy of American prejudice made flesh." -- W. E. B. Du Bois in "Black Reconstruction" #TeachTruth

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1 week ago

March 2, 1955: Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Bus Seat At age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama.

#tdih 1955

"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat . . . Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another, and I could not move. — Claudette Colvin, #TeachTruth ⬇️🧵
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2 weeks ago

Picture of green feather with text around edge GREEN FEATHER MOVEMENT. More info: zinnedproject.org | union bug

In response to current attempts to ban books & people's history lessons, we offer Green Feather stickers to invite discussions about need to resist censorship in schools today.

Scroll to request & donation form on this page:
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#TeachTruth #TeachOutsideTextbook

Zinn Education Project

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2 weeks ago

Slide 1 I love this stuff. A colleague recommended it to me. — Cincinnati, Ohio I teach a course on suppressed history and these materials seem helpful. — Round Rock, Texas I am in a Teaching Palestine book group and want more support and resources. — Northampton, Massachusetts I’m looking for lessons and resources that help middle school students think critically about race, class, and the law, and to help them envision a better future. — Chicago, Illinois

#FridayReport

This week 218 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Berthoud, CO; Farmington, CT; North Miami, FL; Senoia, GA; Chicago, IL; Northampton, MA; Cincinnati, OH; Memphis, TN; Round Rock, TX; Lake Forest Park & many more.

#TeachTruth

Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵

Zinn Education Project

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2 weeks ago

Teaching the American Revolution Resources for teaching a people's history of the American Revolution.

All those references to 1776?

That is why we have a campaign to #TeachTruth about the American Revolution on this 250th anniversary.

Free lessons, questions for reflection, articles, book & film recommendations, & more.

Sign up ⬇️ Add your state to the map.
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2 weeks ago

Shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth? -- quote by Du Bois and headshot in black and white

"And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?" -- W. E. B. Du Bois in "Black Reconstruction"

#TeachTruth #FreedomtoLearn

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3 weeks ago

#BlackHistoryMonth #TeachTruth
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3 weeks ago

5 free resources for teaching Black history  Teaching the “I Have a Dream” speech, Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus, and how George Washington Carver became known as “the Peanut Man” remain common Black History Month lessons in American schools — when Black history is acknowledged or taught at all. This year, however, the annual observance arrives […]

'5 free resources for teaching Black history'

🖋 Alvin Buyinza | Word In Black
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#stlamerican #stlnews #stlouis #BlackHistory #EducationEquity #TeachTruth #WordInBlack

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3 weeks ago

Feb. 19, 1942: Executive Order 9066 #tdih On Feb. 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was issued by President Roosevelt that authorized the incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. This history has a chilling relevanc...

#tdih 1942 Executive Order 9066

President Roosevelt authorized WWII incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent.

About 122,000 people sent to prison camps.

Many of their homes, businesses, and farms were confiscated.

#TeachTruth ⬇️
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3 weeks ago

Rest in power, Rev. Jackson
#BlackHistoryMonth #TeachTruth

So many lessons to learn from Rev. Jesse Jackson's words AND his years of on the ground organizing, in interracial coalitions, to challenge racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ, poverty, unfair labor, militarism, mass incarceration, & more.

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3 weeks ago

#BlackHistoryMonth #TeachTruth
On #TDIH in 1942, Huey P. Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana.

Newton went on to become co-founder of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Read his story at @zinnedproject.bsky.social

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3 weeks ago

Question the President This Presidents Day, rather than mythologize past presidents as kinder and gentler than Trump, let's remind students that this country has been at its best when people have organized to question and c...

#PresidentsDay #TeachTruth

We need to remind students that this country has been at its best when people organized to question and challenge presidents — opposing presidential support for slavery, war, invasion, environmental destruction, segregation, mass deportations, and injustice of all kinds.

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3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

Photo of bell hooks, wearing a scarf and holding a mic, with colorful painting behind her. Text says "Feminist thinking teaches us all how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life." ― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics Photo by Alex Lozupone (Tduk), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, October 2014

"Feminist thinking teaches us all how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life." ― bell hooks from "Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics" (bookshop.org/a/7256/97811...)

#CiteBlackWomenSunday
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1 month ago

Feb. 15, 1848: Benjamin Roberts Filed the First School Desegregation Suit Benjamin Roberts, African American, filed the first school desegregation suit after his daughter Sarah was barred from a public school because of her race in Boston, Massachusetts.

African American lawyer Robert Morris (with Lewis Hayden & others) was one of planners to free Shadrach Minkins.

He was also an attorney in first trial case about school segregation in Boston, also #tdih in 1848.

Read ⬇️ #TeachTruth #BHM100

Art: E. B. Lewis
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#BlackHistoryMonth #TeachTruth
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1 month ago

Sutton's 18th century demand for reparations is an example of the stories this administration aims to ban with McCarthy era/Lost Cause laws and attacks.

Why?

Because the words of Belinda Sutton can empower, inspire, and inform all students.

Defend right to #TeachTruth and the #FreedomtoLearn

Zinn Education Project

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1 month ago

I am interested in the redlining lesson for 1st and 3rd graders during Black History Month. — Washington, D.C. Because I love this stuff and I want my teaching to be historically grounded, culturally relevant, and anti-racist. — Seattle, Washington I want to learn more about the real history of the United States, not what I was taught in high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the 1960s. — Rockaway Beach, Oregon

#FridayReport

This week 243 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Torrance, CA; Washington, D.C.; Savannah, GA; Worcester, MA; Grand Blanc, MI; Kansas City, MO; Staten Island, NY; Rockaway Beach, OR; Seattle, WA; & many more cities.

#TeachTruth

Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵

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1 month ago

Feb. 13, 2013: Keystone Pipeline Protesters Circle White House Activists circled the White House to protest the Keystone Pipeline, an oil system that transports crude oil from Canada to various locations in the United States.

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1 month ago

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1 month ago

Book cover, No Easy Victories

Rosa Parks (wearing hat and glasses) with Freedom Yes, Apartheid No sign and two people walking behind her.

Hundreds of thousands of people in U.S. & around the world mobilized to oppose apartheid in the 1980s.

That successful movement built on decades of links between African liberation movements & activists in the U.S.

Rosa Parks in photo ⬇️ in D.C. & SNCC in next post. #TeachTruth

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1 month ago

Every day this month UCBHSSP is honoring Black History by quoting a critical thinker, and providing a critical inquiry to use in your classroom.
#BlackHistoryMonth #CarterGWoodson #CriticalConsciousness #EducationAsResistance #TeachTruth #HistoricalThinking #BHM #UCBHSSP #CriticalThinking #Educators