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8 Mar, 6 tweets, 4 min read
50th anniversary. #tdih 1971 A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn. & stole docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt and destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/coin…
Despite massive FBI campaign to find "burglars" of Media, Penn. office who exposed COINTELPRO, their identities remained secret until they came forward in 2014. See ⬇️ on @democracynow. For lessons on #CivilDisobedience

Watch @1971film by @JHamilton71. democracynow.org/2014/1/8/it_wa…
Textbooks ignore this role of FBI in U.S. history, but it’s essential background to understand what’s happening today.

HS teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote a lesson drawing on COINTELPRO primary docs.

Free. See ⬇️ for grades 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/coin…
"Luckily, we don't need to rely on corporate textbook publishers & FBI for our resources & curriculum. Thanks to Media burglars, & their suitcases of stolen docs, we have access to memos from this FBI program of destruction." Read ⬇️ by @ladyofsardines zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
The role of COINTELPRO included assassinations.

On Dec. 4, 1969, Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton, 21 and Mark Clark, 22, were shot to death by 14 police officers as they lay sleeping in their Chicago apartment. FBI was involved.

Read more ⬇️

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You can help bring lessons about COINTELPRO and other people's history missing from textbooks to more middle and high school students in 2021.

To keep all our lessons free & to reach more teachers, we depend on individuals like you. Please donate today. zinnedproject.org/donate/

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7 Mar
#tdih 1965 People began march from Selma to Montgomery in protest of police murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and violation of const'l rights to vote. Attacked by state troopers.

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6 Mar
#tdih 1857 The Supreme Court declared in the horrific Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling that "Any person descended from Africans, whether enslaved or free, is not a citizen of the United States." #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dred…
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#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 & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another, & I could not move. — Claudette Colvin, #BlackHistoryMonth zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/clau…
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#tdih 1874 Describing themselves as defenders of a “hereditary civilization and Christianity,” a group of Confederate veterans in La. formed the White League.

Stated purpose was restoration of white supremacy. #terrorism 1/4 [📷 teacher murdered by WL]

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