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13 Feb, 5 tweets, 3 min read
#tdih 1968 Over 1,100 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike and marched for better wages, safe working conditions, and the right to join a union. (The most recent catalyst was death of co-workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker.) Read below & thread. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sani…
Teach about the strike with the documentary "At the River I Stand" from California Newsreel. "A deeply emotional, riveting narration of Black working-class resistance that speaks to the current crisis and jars our collective memory." -- Robin D. G. Kelley zinnedproject.org/materials/at-r…
To introduce history of the Memphis sanitation workers' strike to young readers, Alice Faye Duncan wrote picture book below (illustrated by R. Gregory Christie), inspired by memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child.

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During the strike, Martin Luther King Jr. and 'Community on the Move for Equality' called for a solidarity march with a “soul-force which is peaceful, loving, courageous, yet militant.” King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.

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The sanitation workers' strike in Memphis is one of countless key stories that get little attention in traditional narrative which often ends the Civil Rights Movement in 1965 with signing of VRA. See article below by Adam Sanchez. #teachoutsidetextbook

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#tdih 1951, Paul Robeson submitted a petition (edited by William Patterson) to the U.N. titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we_c…
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#tdih 1969. Assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark -- shot to death by police in their Chicago apartment. #terrorism

Read more below and find lessons to teach about COINTELPRO and Black Panthers. #BlackLivesMatter zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/blac…
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The @SmithsonianNMAI provides invaluable lessons online via Native Knowledge 360. Read and share the link below. #teachoutsidetextbook #peopleshistory americanindian.si.edu/nk360
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#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton. More than 100 of them were massacred by white supremacists. 12 Black men were sentenced to death for the "riots." #terrorism #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/elai…
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