#tdih 1969. Assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark -- shot to death by police in their Chicago apartment. #terrorism
Read more below and find lessons (free via ZEP) to teach about the Black Panther Party, COINTELPRO, and police. #TeachTruth zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/blac…
See “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther,” an interview with lawyer Jeffery Haas (co-founder of the People’s Law Office) on @democracynow ⬇️
democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_…
Teach about this history with lesson below by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, "Through examining FBI documents, students learn the scope of the FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign to spy on, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt all corners of the Black Freedom Movement." zinnedproject.org/materials/coin…
When teaching about BPP, include role in healthcare. Ask how impact of COVID would have been different if Panthers’ People’s Free Medical Clinics & other public health approaches hadn't been attacked by COINTELPRO. See book ⬇️by Alondra Nelson @alondra zinnedproject.org/materials/body…
Learn more about about Fred Hampton’s childhood (including a connection to Mamie Till), organizing, and murder from this tweet thread by high school teacher and ZEP teacher organizer/curriculum writer Ursula Wolfe-Rocca (@LadyOfSardines).

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5 Dec
#tdih 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott began. One of most powerful organizing stories.
Yet many people associate it with isolated act by Rosa Parks, without context of Parks’ life of activism; decades of public transportation protest; nor the role of WPC. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bus-…
The call to action came from a flier produced by Jo Ann Robinson of Women's Political Council (WPC) and a few associates. They bravely mimeographed tens of thousands of leaflets to distribute across city. Read more at @NMAAHC nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/jo-a… & watch "Eyes on the Prize." Typed flier calling for boycott on Dec. 5, 1955
This wasn't first protest against discrimination on public transportation. In 1955, Claudette Colvin & other woman took a stand.

There were hundreds of acts of civil disobedience & other protests, dating back to 19th century. Not a single story. See ⬇️
civilrightsteaching.org/desegregation/…
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24 Nov
#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. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/holl…
"Movies of 1950s did not display any evidence of populist spirit which infused some of more notable ‘30s & ‘40s films. On the contrary, studios complacently turned out . . . movies which. . .debased women, ignored African Americans, & exalted war & imperialism." -- Allen Rivkin
Not in textbooks: "Red Scare was a scorched-earth policy against most progressive forces: labor unions organizing across racial lines; civil rights orgs. . . ; writers, artists, & journalists who advocated internationalism & peace." -- @LadyOfSardines ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
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22 Nov
#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
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/boga…
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…
Read 4 tweets
20 Nov
“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 ⬇️

zinnedproject.org/materials/blac…
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

zinnedproject.org/campaigns/teac…
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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…
"There is a Communist directive in education now to stress the story of Robin Hood. They want to stress it because he robbed the rich & gave it to the poor. That’s Communist line. It’s a smearing of law & order & anything that disrupts law & order is their meat." -- Mrs. White
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:
zinnedproject.org/materials/the-…
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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.
zinnedproject.org/news/koch-brot…
#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
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/law-…
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