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30 Jul, 4 tweets, 3 min read
#tdih 1866 Massacre of African Americans in New Orleans at an interracial voting rights convention. Attacked by white mobs and police (that included ex-Confederates). No charges.

Time to #TeachReconstruction and long history of voter suppression. Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/july…
Teachers: Here is 3-lesson unit on long history of voter suppression and organizing for right to vote. For grades 7+. Includes testimony by Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. #TeachVotingRights on this 150th anniversary yr of 15th Amend. Free book for teaching story. zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…
1866 NOLA Massacre is one of countless in U.S. history to suppress voting rights, land own., economic adv., education, press freedom, religion, LGBTQ rights, &/or labor rights of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, & immigrants. zinnedproject.org/collection/mas…
Learn more from the thread below on the New Orleans Massacre by @wihorne

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1 Aug
#tdih 1952 22-yr-old WAC Sarah Louise Keys Evans from NC refused to give up her seat for a white man on state-to-state charter bus from NJ to NC. She was arrested, filed suit (with lawyer Dovey J. Roundtree), and won in Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. Read ⬇️. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sara…
We recommend children's book "Take a Seat: Make a Stand: The Story of Sarah Key Evans."

Author @AmyNathanBooks had to self-publish because publishers told her they already had Rosa Parks books, or that Evans wasn’t famous so nobody would be interested.
bookshop.org/a/7256/9780595…
We also recommend young readers' book, "Mighty Justice: The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree" by @jabariasim & Katie McCabe. Roundtree was Keys' lawyer and a lifelong attorney and minister for justice.

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30 Jul
We've heard that a teacher who signed the #TeachTruth pledge is being told by her school admin to sign McCarthy era like statement promising not to teach Critical Race Theory.

This would be a new tactic in right wing campaign to ban teaching of history and current events.
And let's be clear about what they are banning. Cartoon ⬇️ by @SlyngCartoons sums it up. Status quo is threatened by growing number of teachers committed to #TeachOutsideTextbook about people's history. They want teachers to go back to whitewashed textbook version of history.
"Bans of critical race theory. . . are attempts to avoid the responsibility to accurately depict historical and current racial inequities; their bans use color-evasiveness in education to avoid talking about racism & white supremacy altogether." -- Read ⬇️
hechingerreport.org/opinion-using-…
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22 Jul
In 2020, DHS authorized surveillance to protect statues.

In summer of 1966, local authorities forced prisoners to protect Confederate Memorial in Grenada, Miss.

Meanwhile, local people demanding lawful right to vote (#tdih 1966) were attacked by KKK & police. (See next tweet.)
Text ⬆️ is from detailed timeline by CORE volunteer in Grenada. Read more in #tdih 1966 post ⬇️, from CRM Archive website.

Recommended to introduce students to realities (strategies, threats, bravery) of day-to-day organizing by and with local people.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/judg…
As for DHS surveillance, a reminder of why students need to study history of COINTELPRO. Here is critique of textbook silences and link to a free lesson by @LadyOfSardines using primary documents.

Students uncover role of FBI and connect to today.
zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
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17 Jul
#tdih 1944: Port Chicago Naval Magazine Disaster, Calif.: 320 men died (2/3 were African American).

Protest of deadly conditions in munitions led to 50 African Americans court-martialed for mutiny.

Should be studied as part of WWII history. More ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/port…
“I wasn’t trying to shirk work. But to go back to work under the same conditions, with no improvements, no changes, the same group of officers that we had, was just — we thought there was a better alternative.” -- Joe Small, survivor of Port Chicago explosion. people with boxes on waterfront
Sailors ordered to return to work in same conditions that led to deadly munitions explosion.

"This is not 50 men on trial for mutiny. This is Navy on trial for its whole vicious policy towards Negroes." -- Thurgood Marshall

They were found guilty, sentenced to federal prison. men in sailors uniform walking on pier
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15 Jul
#tdih 1964 WWII vet and SNCC voting rights activist Ozell Sutton was denied service at the Arkansas Capitol cafeteria. This violated federal law for businesses operating in conjunction with state entities & Civil Rights Act of 1964 (passed 2 weeks before). zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ozel…
Ozell Sutton was told by capitol cafeteria manager, “we don’t serve negras here!” Sutton replied, “That’s all right lady, I don’t eat them either, so you don’t need to serve me any negras. You need to serve me some roast beef!” From Arkansas Times ⬇️
arktimes.com/news/cover-sto…
To avoid accountability, Capitol cafeteria incorporated as private, nonprofit club, with token $1 membership fee. Sutton, backed by @NAACP, filed a class action against the Capitol Club in U.S. District Court. Read more at Encyclopedia of Arkansas here. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/desegr… Large building with dome in...
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13 Jul
#tdih 1863 New York City Draft Riots. White rioters murdered hundreds of African Americans and burned an orphanage. This is one of countless massacres in U.S. history, driven by white supremacy. Read more ⬇️and find lesson for gr 7+. #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/draf…
Read a detailed description of the 1863 Draft Riots in the excerpt below from "In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863" by Leslie M. Harris (@ProfLMH) via @UChicagoPress

bookshop.org/a/7256/9780226…
For children, we recommend "Dayshaun’s Gift" by @zettaelliott A time travelling historical fiction for upper elementary school students on the NYC Draft Riots and community of Weeksville where African Americans sought refuge during the riots.

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