Jan. 1 #tdih thread.
#1 Haitian Independence #tdih 1804 "We owe much to Walker for his appeal; to John Brown. . . but we owe incomparably more to Haiti . . . I regard her as the original pioneer emancipator of the 19th century. — Frederick Douglass. ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/hait…
#1 Haitian Independence #tdih 1804 "We owe much to Walker for his appeal; to John Brown. . . but we owe incomparably more to Haiti . . . I regard her as the original pioneer emancipator of the 19th century. — Frederick Douglass. ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/hait…
#2 The Emancipation Proclamation took effect #tdih 1863.
Who did it “emancipate”? And who gets credited? Read “Rethinkin’ Lincoln” by Bill Bigelow of @rethinkschools zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/eman…
Who did it “emancipate”? And who gets credited? Read “Rethinkin’ Lincoln” by Bill Bigelow of @rethinkschools zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/eman…
#3 The Rosewood Massacre was the white supremacist destruction of a Black town and the murder of many of its residents. It began on #tdih 1923. #terrorism #sundowntown zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/rose…
The Rosewood Massacre was one of countless in U.S. history. Most were designed to suppress voting rights, land ownership, economic advancement, education, freedom of press, labor rights, & more of people of color and Native Americans. zinnedproject.org/collection/mas…
#4 "We will not make a pretense of being satisfied with the crumbs of citizenship while others enjoy the whole loaf only by right of a whiteskinned birth." — Rev. Matthew McCollough at #tdih 1960 Greenville Airport Protest. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/gree…
#5 Murder of Oscar Grant III on #tdih 2009 by BART police officer in Oakland. See "Fruitvale Station" with @michaelb4jordan & @octaviaspencer. Mural by Trust Your Struggle Collective @TYScollective and @RobertTres #BlackLivesMatter zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/osca…
@michaelb4jordan @octaviaspencer @TYScollective @RobertTres #6 Born #tdih John Henrik Clarke (Jan 1, 1915 - July 12, 1998) -- a people's historian. See bio via @BlackPastOnline: blackpast.org/african-americ… Read Clarke's work. Learn more from @africanacarr tweets.
"I saw no African people in the printed & illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began." --John H. Clarke #teachoutsidetextbook
”History, I have often said, is a clock that people use to tell their political time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography." -- John Henrik Clarke #teachoutsidetextbook
