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27 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
#tdih 1994 U.S. DOJ announced prison population topped 1 million for 1st time in U.S. history. Now, US is 5% of global pop & has nearly 25% of world’s prison pop.

Make people in prison & system of mass incarceration visible in curriculum. #TeachTruth ⬇️
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We recommend the young adult edition of "Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice" by Bryan Stevenson of @eji_org #TeachTruth
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"Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling" is an antidote to silence in textbooks about U.S. prison-industrial complex.

In graphic novel format, facts and history of the criminal injustice system are made accessible for grades 7 to adult. @thenewpress
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Also, "When You Hear Me (You Hear Us)" is a new anthology of more than 100 poems and personal stories centering the voices of those directly impacted by the incarceration of young people in the U.S.

Compiled by @FreeMindsDC via @shoutmousepress
bookshop.org/a/7256/9781950…

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26 Oct
We are soooo looking forward to this @nmaahc event later today (7pm ET) with @KinshashaC, Paul Gardullo, @ProfJeffries, and @KidadaEWilliams. Moderated by @AfricanaCarr.

Hope we see you there too! Still time to sign up. See info and registration below.
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The program is already wonderful -- and it hasn't even started yet! Key quotes and images. #MakeGoodthePromises @NMAAHC
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19 Oct
#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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16 Oct
#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…
OPHR central demands:
- restore Muhammad Ali’s heavyweight boxing title;
- remove Avery Brundage as head of the International Olympic Committee;
- hire more African American coaches; and
- disinvite South Africa and Rhodesia from Olympics.
#tdih 1968 ⬇️
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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
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6 Oct
"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…
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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
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Read about her fight for voting rights by @KeishaBlain via @smithsonianmag #TeachVotingRights
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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.
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Her Afterword powerfully connects history in book to current events.
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