Thread by @ZinnEdProject

#tdih Nov. 3 thread.
Starting with uplifting 1874 election of Robert Smalls to Congress (for SC) during Reconstruction, there are also stories of violent 19th cent. voter suppression, Native American protest (1972), Greenboro Massacre (1979), & more. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/robe…

#tdih 1874, White League attacked Black voters at the polls in Barbour County, Alabama. Seven African-Americans were killed and 70 others wounded. More than 1,000 African-Americans were driven away from the polls. #terrorism #TeachReconstruction zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/1874…

#tdih 1883 White supremacists used terrorism to remove the elected, biracial Readjuster Party in Danville, Virginia. Armed white supremacists killed 5 people and patrolled streets to prevent most African Americans from voting. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/danv…

#tdih 1972 More than 300 tribes of North America went to D.C. “to demand the government’s fulfillment of all U.S. treaty obligations and to self-determination." They occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offices in D.C. for six days. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/brok…

#tdih 1979 César Vincente Cauce, Michael Ronald Nathan, M.D., William Evan Sampson, Sandra Neely Smith, and James Michael Waller, M.D. were murdered by Klan during a rally in Greensboro, NC. Police were alerted and absent. #terrorism Follow: @Gsolessons zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/nov-…

#tdih 1986. Revealed that U.S. gov't. sold weapons to Iran in a hostage release deal, despite it being illegal & Reagan’s vow “never to negotiate with terrorists.” Proceeds from arms sale used to wage war against democratically elected gov't of Nicaragua. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/iran…

*Greensboro* Massacre (1979) 40 years ago today.

#tdih 1964 More voting rights history from Nov. 3. Note that while D.C. residents got the vote, they still don't have voting representatives in Congress nor the Senate. #colony