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10 Nov, 6 tweets, 4 min read
#tdih 1898 in Wilmington, NC: A massacre of African Americans by white supremacists, Black press & businesses burned, and coup d’etat of elected, interracial Reconstruction era government. #terrorism

Learn more & see #TeachReconstruction lessons ⬇️
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“They burned down Black newspapers all over the state [of NC]. They shut down entry to the city from Blacks and Republicans. . . It’s important not to forget that this was planned. . ." about Wilmington Massacre in article ⬇️by Vann Newkirk & @AdrienneLaF theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
"Lost in the fire that destroyed The Daily Record were the lives of Black citizens and the spirit of a thriving Black community, and also the most promising effort in the South to build racial solidarity." -- @TheAtlantic ⬆️
Like Tulsa & many more. ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
Wilmington Massacre is one of countless in U.S. history. Most massacres were designed by white supremacists to suppress voting rights, land ownership, economic advancement, education, freedom of press, & more. Below is list of many (by no means all) more. zinnedproject.org/collection/mas…
Wilmington Massacre (#tdih 1898) is a clear example of need for reparations. @LadyOfSardines wrote the lesson ⬇️ because "reparations are nowhere in the textbooks my school district has adopted to help me teach young people in the U.S. about their past." zinnedproject.org/materials/stud…
Not a teacher? Help us continue to provide people's history lessons & defend teachers right to #TeachTruth.

After summer of 2020, more teachers started to teach people's history, like story of Wilmington Massacre. GOP is trying to make that illegal. ⬇️

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11 Nov
#tdih Veterans Day. Read about African American veterans who fought in various wars and upon their return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy and human rights. Also resources to teach about vets organizing against war. ⬇️#TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vete…
#VeteransDay WWII vet Maceo Snipes was killed on July 18, 1946 by KKK for bravely casting vote in Georgia Democratic Primary. He may have survived Klan #terrorism, but Jim Crow hospital denied him treatment. #TeachTruth
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#VeteransDay In 1955, WWI vet and farmer Lamar Smith was shot dead in cold blood on crowded courthouse lawn in Miss. for urging African American to vote. No one prosecuted. See @NAACP primer and film by @KeithBeauchamp w/ @jelani9 ⬇️ #TeachVotingRights
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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.
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#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
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1 Nov
#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
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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.
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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 ⬇️
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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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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 ⬇️
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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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