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20 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
“Thus grew up a double system of justice, which erred on the white side by undue leniency and the practical immunity of red-handed criminals, and erred on the Black side by undue severity, injustice, and lack of discrimination.” -- W. E. B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk (1903)
How to teach about the times we are in? #TeachReconstruction

It's all in "Black Reconstruction" by W. E. B. Du Bois. See ⬇️

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Too often the story of the grand experiment in interracial democracy in the U.S. -- and the white supremacist backlash -- is skipped or rushed through in classrooms across the country.

Find lessons, books, films, and more ⬇️ to #TeachReconstruction

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Below are key resources for countering textbook myths and silences on Reconstruction -- including a book from @NMAAHC (see exhibit at national museum in DC), Seizing Freedom podcast by @KidadaEWilliams, young adult & picture books, #tdih entries, and more.
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13 Nov
#tdih 1953: Indiana textbook commissioner (Mrs. White) called for ban of references to Robin Hood in schools. Like GOP anti-history ed bills today.

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Five IU students in Baptist study group bravely protested. They got poultry feathers, dyed them green, & spread them around campus. Robin Hood is here!

Green Feather movement spread across country.

Read about response of FBI and local media here:
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11 Nov
On #VeteransDay and all year long, students deserve to learn truth about war, including from veterans themselves and their families.

Read ⬇️how Koch Brothers founded and funded Bill of Rights Institute exploits and lies about story of Pat Tillman.
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#VeteransDay Black and white WWI vets were attacked by U.S. gov't. with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas when they came to D.C. from across the country to demand their wartime bonus in 1932. #TeachOutsideTextbook #PeoplesHistory zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonu…
#VeteransDay Remember Oliver Law who served as Commander of the integrated Abraham Lincoln Brigade, fighting fascism in Spain just before WWII.

The U.S. gov't. outlawed the brigade; called them "premature antifascists." #TeachTruth
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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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10 Nov
#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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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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#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…
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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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