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22 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
#tdih 1919 Bogalusa Labor Massacre. Self-Preservation & Loyalty League (SPLL) and Great Southern Lumber Company gunmen killed white allies of African American labor organizer Sol Dacus.

Their goal: undermine interracial union.

Read more ⬇️ #TeachTruth
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Read more about Sol Dacus and 1919 Bogalusa Labor Massacre in Louisiana in thread below by @LadyOfSardines #TeachOutsideTextbook
There is a long history of white supremacist massacres in U.S. history designed to suppress voting rights, land ownership, economic advancement, education, freedom of the press, religion, LGBTQ rights, and/or labor rights. See ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/collection/mas…
Bogalusa #tdih 1919

U.S. history textbooks: "you’re unlikely to find more than a paragraph on 1919 Red Summer; what you do find downplays both racism & Black resistance, while distorting facts in a dangerous 'both sides' framing." -- @LadyOfSardines ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…

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#tdih 1947 Congress held “Hollywood 10” in contempt for refusal to testify before House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Next day, Motion Picture Assoc. fired “Hollywood 10.” Censorship led to more racism, sexism & militarism in popular culture. ⬇️
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“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)
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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.

Brave group of @IUBloomington students (incl. in 📷⬇️) challenged #McCarthyism with Green Feather campaign. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/call…
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Green Feather movement spread across country.

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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.

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#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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