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19 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
#tdih 1870 the first African Americans were elected to the House of Representatives.

It is critically important to teach about "freedom's unfinished revolution" -- the era of Reconstruction. #TeachTruth

Find free lessons and recommended books & films ⬇️
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"When myself and colleagues shall leave these Halls and turn our footsteps toward our Southern homes we know not but that the assassin may await our coming, as marked for his vengeance." -- Joseph Rainey, elected #tdih 1870, on white supremacist terrorism. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jose…
"What you give to one class you must give to all. What you deny to one class, you deny to all." -- Congressperson Robert B. Elliott of SC (elected #tdih 1870) in 1874 speech to advocate for Civil Rights Act.

It is worth pausing to read speech in full ⬇️
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To learn how to effectively fight voter suppression today, young people can study the long and ongoing history of the fight for voting rights in the U.S. #TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachVotingRights

See the free 3-lesson unit below by @ladyofsardines

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#tdih 1968 We all recognize iconic photo of Black Power salute by Tommie Smith & John Carlos at Olympics. But, what were their demands? What happened before & after? How did they organize? Role of Peter Norman? Read ⬇️ @edgeofsports #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/olym…
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- remove Avery Brundage as head of the International Olympic Committee;
- hire more African American coaches; and
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To introduce young people to the history of the Olympic Project for Human Rights and the protest in 1968, we recommend "The John Carlos Story" by John Carlos and Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports via @haymarketbooks -- a gripping read for grades 7+. See ⬇️
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13 Oct
#tdih 1792, U.S. White House cornerstone was laid. Federal gov't used enslaved labor for "all aspects of construction, including carpentry, masonry, carting, plastering, glazing, painting and the grueling work of sawing logs and stones.” #theft Read ⬇️
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“When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don’t forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.” -- @ClintSmithIII in powerful 3 min. reading of letter to U.S. presidents who were enslavers via @pbsnewshour
Slavery "was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It is not irrelevant to our contemporary society; it created it. This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, & it must, too, be in our memories." -- @ClintSmithIII
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"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.

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“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
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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.
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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.
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"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

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#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.
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"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

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#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

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