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#tdih 1890, Mississippi adopted new constitution with poll tax & arbitrary literacy tests to end progress of Reconstruction for African Americans. Precedent for other states. See SNCC's 1964 Mississippi: Subversion of Right to Vote ⬇️ #TeachReconstruction zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/miss…
"Every Southern state instituted literacy tests and poll taxes to effectively remove African Americans from the citizenship they were supposed to have been guaranteed by the 14th Amendment." -- James Loewen #TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth
Read ⬇️
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For young adults, "Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights."

YA book includes impact on voting rights of Constitutional Convention, Civil War, 13th & 14th amendments, the 1965 VRA and its dismantling by the Supreme Court in 2013.
zinnedproject.org/materials/stol…
Novel for grades 7+ weaves in history & current struggles for voting rights. Protagonist has cat named Selma. Book lives up to its dedication to Fannie Lou Hamer. By @brandycolbert, also co-author with @JeanneTheoharis of YA version of Rosa Parks book. zinnedproject.org/materials/voti…
Take just nine minutes to watch film ⬇️about Citizenship Schools in 1950s where African Americans risked their lives to teach/learn literacy skills for the voter registration requirements in the South.
Produced by @LitProjectFilms and streams free.

zinnedproject.org/materials/citi…
From limits to ballot drop boxes to required witness signatures for mail-in ballots, the GOP is undermining fair elections. Tactics are not new. It's critical that students learn long history of fight for voting rights. Textbook critique + 3 lessons ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
Don't skip mid-terms: vote in school board elections. The rightwing has invested a lot of money, but we have the numbers. Let's go to action in defense of teachers and in defense of young people learning from history to shape a better future. #TeachTruth

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3 Nov
#tdih Nov. 3 🧵.

Start w/uplifting 1874 Reconstruction election of Robert Smalls to Congress (for SC) ⬇️

Next: stories of violent 19th cent. voter suppression in Virginia & Alabama, Native American protest (1972), Greensboro Massacre (1979), more.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/robe…
#tdih 1874, White League attacked Black voters at the polls in Barbour County, Ala. Seven African-Americans were killed & 70 others wounded. More than 1,000 African-Americans were driven away from polls. Rewrite the marker. #terrorism #TeachReconstruction zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/1874…
#tdih 1883 Danville, Virginia: White supremacists used terrorism to remove the elected, biracial Readjuster Party.

Armed white supremacists killed five people and patrolled streets to prevent most African Americans from voting. #terrorism #TeachTruth
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/danv…
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27 Oct
#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 ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/pris…
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
zinnedproject.org/materials/race…
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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.
#TeachReconstruction
The program is already wonderful -- and it hasn't even started yet! Key quotes and images. #MakeGoodthePromises @NMAAHC
"The story of Reconstruction is written into the DNA of this museum." -- Paul Gardullo
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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 ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/afri…
"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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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 ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/materials/john…
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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
See lessons ⬇️
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