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#tdih 1954: Green Feather Movement launched.
Creative effort to expose & resist #RedScare attempt by Indiana Textbook Commission to ban Robin Hood from all school books for "promoting communism because he stole from the rich to give to the poor." 🧵 ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/gree…
Creative effort to expose & resist #RedScare attempt by Indiana Textbook Commission to ban Robin Hood from all school books for "promoting communism because he stole from the rich to give to the poor." 🧵 ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/gree…
In face of Red Scare today, we can learn from five brave IU students.
They dyed chicken feathers green (not easy) & spread them around IU campus to protest censorship & McCarthyism.
Movement caught on. One of the 5, Bernard Bray, interviewed by ZEP ➡️: zinnedproject.org/materials/the-…
They dyed chicken feathers green (not easy) & spread them around IU campus to protest censorship & McCarthyism.
Movement caught on. One of the 5, Bernard Bray, interviewed by ZEP ➡️: zinnedproject.org/materials/the-…
Bernard Bray, who teaches at @TalladegaColleg, said he was inspired to take action based on Baptist Fellowship youth group discussions of burning social issues; influences of seminarian who was jailed for refusal to participate in WWII; & religious convictions of his parents.
#tdih 1932: U.S. gov't attacked WWI vets with tanks, bayonets, & tear gas, under leadership of textbook heroes MacArthur, Patton, & Eisenhower. The WWI vets were part of a Bonus Army who came to D.C. to demand promised wartime bonuses.
Videos + more ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonu…
Videos + more ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonu…
"While they may have fought in Europe as a segregated army, the Bonus Army did not invite Jim Crow to this battle.
Arriving from all over the country, alone or with wives and children, both Black and white vets huddled together, in what they called ‘Hoovervilles.'" #TeachTruth
Arriving from all over the country, alone or with wives and children, both Black and white vets huddled together, in what they called ‘Hoovervilles.'" #TeachTruth
"Despite the fact that the Bonus Army was made up of 95 percent veterans, the entire group were labeled 'Red agitators' — tantamount to declaring open season on an oppressed group of U.S. citizens. Right on cue, Hoover called out the troops." #TeachOutsideTextbook #RedScare
#tdih 1959 Palo Verde, La Loma, & Bishop were close-knit Mexican American communities, founded in 1840s, that the city of LA destroyed to make way for land that would be used for Dodger Stadium.
Longtime residents displaced from homes and community.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/chav…
Longtime residents displaced from homes and community.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/chav…
"My family and I fought every way we knew how to stay in our home in Chavez Ravine. Police had to carry my daughter, Aurora Vargas from our house. . . we lost our home and our land, but we didn’t lose our pride because we fought with everything we had." -- Manuel Arechiga
Frank Wilkinson, representative from L.A. Housing Authority who came to defense of the families, was targeted and jailed by House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). (Real purpose of #RedScare)
Read article by @KatrinaNation via @thenation here: thenation.com/article/archiv…
Read article by @KatrinaNation via @thenation here: thenation.com/article/archiv…
165 years ago #OnThisDay, William Ferguson Massey (1856 - 1925), the 13th prime minister of #NewZealand was born in #Ireland to a small farming Protestant family
#BOTD #OTD
#BOTD #OTD
2) In 1862, Massey’s parents emigrated to #NewZealand leaving their 6 year old child behind to complete his education He was raised by his grandmother and uncle and at age 14 followed his parents in 1870 to #Auckland
3) By 1876 Massey settled in Mangere on the outskirts of #Auckland where he leased a 100 acre farm and bought a threshing machine to provide supplemental income.
After inspiration from @ASlavicViking there follows a #thread on #redscare propoganda from the last 70 years
First off, a ginger man without a sense of humour wokescolding his children for laughing at ludicrous claims #redscare
