Share this page!

Zinn Ed Project Profile picture
Twitter logo
6 Oct, 8 tweets, 7 min read
"If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one." -- Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917 in Montgomery Cty, Miss. Hamer and thousands more Mississippians took one of boldest moves in U.S. history to fight for real democracy in nat'l elections. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fann…
"Black people know what white people mean when they say 'law and order.'" -- Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917.

Read profile (ideal for gr 6+) of Hamer with primary docs & interview at @snccdigital here: snccdigital.org/people/fannie-… (In photo below with Ms. Ella Baker & more.) Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker and three other people. all out
“You can pray until you faint, but if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.” -- Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917

Read about her fight for voting rights by @KeishaBlain via @smithsonianmag #TeachVotingRights
smithsonianmag.com/history/fannie…
"This book expands the boundaries of the Black radical political and intellectual tradition and re-centers a voice that is too prescient to be ignored.”
— Barbara Ransby on @KeishaBlain's hot off the press new book on Fannie Lou Hamer, "Until I Am Free."

bookshop.org/a/7256/9780807…
“Is this America, the land of the free & the home of the brave, where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?” -- Fannie Lou Hamer asked credentials committee at DNC in Atlantic City. #MFDP
Read textbook critique ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
Fannie Lou Hamer was a field secretary for the youth led Civil Rights Movement organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Teach about SNCC with this free downloadable lesson by high school teacher Adam Sanchez.
zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…
Teachers: Check out this free 3-lesson unit for grades 7+ on voting rights. In lesson 1, students share their understanding of what makes a “qualified” voter, then reconsider their thinking after a close reading of an oral history by Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…
Learn from people who worked with Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer in SNCC at @SNCC60th anniversary intergenerational virtual conference, Oct. 14-16, 2021, organized by SNCC vets who work with @BYP_100, @Dreamdefenders, @NAACP, @NewGAProject, & more.
Register today: sncc60thanniversary.org Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker at conference, banner on sta

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Zinn Ed Project

Zinn Ed Project Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ZinnEdProject

Zinn Ed Project Profile picture
19 Sep
In new YA book, @brandycolbert tells history of Oklahoma incl. Trail of Tears, Reconstruction, Black towns, Red Summer, Jim Crow, Black and white newspapers, lynchings, Tulsa Massacre, policing, ongoing fight for reparations and historical memory, & more.
zinnedproject.org/materials/blac…
Throughout Colbert provides context. e.g., when noting inflammatory headlines, she offers history of white AND Black press in Tulsa, rather than just saying "the press" as is too often norm, which standardizes whiteness & censors vital role of Black press. zinnedproject.org/materials/sold…
Colbert begins with her K-12 education in Missouri. "The fact that there was no separate, detailed lesson about Trail of Tears, which ran through our hometown, was particularly egregious."

Her Afterword powerfully connects history in book to current events.
Art by Max Standley Forced Move by Max Standley courtesy R. Michelson Galleries
Read 5 tweets
Zinn Ed Project Profile picture
19 Sep
#tdih 1868 Camilla Massacre, Albany, GA. After being expelled from elected office, African Americans & a few whites marched to speak out at a political rally.

Whites in town opened fire, pursued, & massacred marchers. Followed by more #votersuppression.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/cami…
"The year 1868 comes up in textbooks as significant only because of the election of Ulysses S. Grant. This focus on those at the top, misses the groundswell of activity that made the year so explosive." -- Read below about advances and repression in 1868. zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
The Camilla Massacre of 1868 is a key story in Reconstruction & voting rights history.

Yet, we've not seen it in other major, national "this day in history" timelines.

Students can advocate for greater recognition of this history. #TeachReconstruction

zinnedproject.org/news/make-reco…
Read 5 tweets
Zinn Ed Project Profile picture
28 Aug
#tdih 1963, March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom, a milestone in a movement that spanned yrs of activism by many groups & individuals.

Held in centennial yr (1863) of Emancipation Proclamation and day of lynching in #tdih 1955 of 14-yr-old Emmett Till.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/marc…
"Teaching about the March on Washington presents a series of challenges precisely because it involves counteracting sanitized textbooks & demythologizing not only the march, but also the Black Freedom Struggle." -- @BillFletcherJr

#TeachTruth Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
#tdih 1955, while visiting family in Mississippi, 14-yr-old Emmett Till was lynched.

Till was vilified by mainstream (white) press, including @washingtonpost. (Important to also teach about Black reporters, like Simeon Booker.) #BlackLivesMatter

Read⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/emme…
Read 5 tweets
Zinn Ed Project Profile picture
15 Aug
When you sign up to host a Pledge to #TeachTruth event during the Days of Action (Aug. 27 - 29) or anytime -- we send you LOTS of cool images that you can use as is or customize. Here are a few.

Sign up here: teachtruthpledge.org Text in white letters "...
Sign up to host a Pledge to #TeachTruth event during the Days of Action (Aug. 27 - 29) or anytime. We'll send you LOTS of cool images that you can use as is or customize. (Sign up here: teachtruthpledge.org) Image
Pledge to #TeachTruth Days of Action graphics. Sign up here: teachtruthpledge.org "At school we learn or...
Read 4 tweets
Zinn Ed Project Profile picture
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-…
Read 4 tweets
Zinn Ed Project Profile picture
2 Aug
"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…
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @ZinnEdProject has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @ZinnEdProject!

Read all threads by @ZinnEdProject

:(