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2 Aug, 5 tweets, 3 min read
"We are living through a very dangerous time. . . The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." — James Baldwin (born #tdih 1924), "A Talk to Teachers" zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jame…
Photo above is from Selma’s Freedom Day in 1963, soon after 32 African American school teachers were fired because they attempted to register to vote, and a few weeks after 16th St. Baptist Church bombing in nearby Birmingham.

Read below by Howard Zinn. zinnedproject.org/materials/free…
". . . And the police are simply the hired enemies of this population. They are present to keep the Negro in his place and to protect white business interests, and they have no other function." -- James Baldwin in "A Report from Occupied Territory" zinnedproject.org/news/teach-his…
"Those pious calls to 'respect the law,' always to be heard from prominent citizens each time the ghetto explodes, are so obscene. The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer." — James Baldwin via @thenation
thenation.com/article/archiv…
And on this anniversary of James Baldwin's birth, we recommend his 1984 essay "On Being White . . . and Other Lies.“ Read here: cwsworkshop.org/pdfs/CARC/Fami…

Quote below from Raoul Peck's 2016 film based on Baldwin's work, "I Am Not Your Negro." @IAmNotYourNegro Statement by James Baldwin

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4 Aug
#tdih 1964. Bodies of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman found in Phil., Miss. Lynched by KKK with deputy sheriff's help when they were investigating burning of church/freedom school. Read ⬇️ & find lessons on white supremacy & voting rights. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/civi…
James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman were lynched while investigating the burning of Mt. Zion Church that had opened its doors for freedom school classes.

Education and voting rights are threats to white supremacy and repressed with terrorism. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/chan…
Learn more about James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman from @snccdigital, a website on the history of SNCC and connections to organizing today.

Created at @CDSDuke & Duke Libraries in full partnership with SNCC veterans. See: snccdigital.org/events/bodies-… Image
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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.

bookshop.org/a/7256/9781250…
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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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30 Jul
#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…
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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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