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7 Jan, 11 tweets, 5 min read
#Jan6th insurrection was one in long line of violent actions by white supremacists to undermine right to vote &/or election results. #TeachReconstruction
Most textbooks omit advances & history of voter suppression. Read⬇️& see short Reconstruction 🧵
zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
Important to start with number of Black elected officials and groundbreaking reforms they advanced.

For example, in 1868 Mississippi, interracial gov't provided, for first time, uniform system of free public schools for children regardless of race. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/miss…
Teach about 1868, when in state after state, African Americans, many of them formerly enslaved, gathered with whites, many of them poor & disempowered until Reconstruction, to rewrite constitutions of South.

Brutal backlash to these advances. See 🧵⬇️
zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
1868: Camilla Massacre. As African Americans marched peacefully in response to their expulsion from elected office, more than a dozen were massacred near Albany, Georgia. Read more ⬇️. #TeachOutsideTextbook

zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/cami…
1868: Opelousas (Louisiana) Massacre started with Knights of the White Camelia (like KKK) beating teacher and newspaper editor Emerson Bentley — while he was teaching class — because he had promoted voter registration and education for all.

Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sept…
1868: St. Bernard Parish (Louisiana) massacre of African Americans was carried out by white men to terrorize the recently emancipated voters. HS teacher @chrisdier researched & wrote book so his students could learn this history left out of textbooks. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st-b…
1866: New Orleans Massacre. White residents attacked Black marchers gathered outside the Mechanics Institute, where reconvened Louisiana Constitutional Convention met in response to the state legislature enacting Black Codes & limiting suffrage.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/july…
1873 "The bloodiest single instance of racial carnage in the Reconstruction era, the Colfax [LA] massacre taught many lessons, including the lengths to which some opponents of Reconstruction would go to regain their accustomed authority." -- Eric Foner zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/colf…
Vicksburg Miss. Massacre, 1874
Whites attacked Black citizens who had organized to defend Peter Crosby. Formerly enslaved and a veteran of the Union army, Crosby had been forced to resign from his elected role as sheriff. Read more ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vick…
There was even a coup d'etat of a Reconstruction era interracial, elected local government in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898.

Read below ⬇️

zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wilm…
Sadly, there are many more examples of white supremacist attacks.

All this to undermine Reconstruction era advances in Black voting rights and progressive legislation by interracial elected gov'ts.
Learn more in national report we release next week. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/national-…

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8 Jan
#tdih 1811 Over 500 Africans, from 50 nations & speaking dozens of languages, waged a strategic battle for their freedom & to end slavery & white supremacy.

Which side did U.S. troops & territorial militias take?

Read ⬇️ by Leon Waters. @HiddenHistoryLa zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/loui…
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See the 2019 re-enactment of the German Coast Uprising of 1811, which took place in the river parishes just outside of New Orleans.

Re-enactment envisioned and organized by artist @DreadScottArt, documented by filmmaker John Akomfrah, here: slave-revolt.com Slave Rebellion Reenactment...
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6 Jan
The #Jan6th armed insurrection seeking to overturn the presidential election was not subtle. Neither were the white supremacist vigilantes, paramilitaries, & elected officials who rolled back gains for multiracial democracy during Reconstruction. 1/7 🧵⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/colf…
Connections between the history of Reconstruction’s roll-back & today — sustained attempts to undermine elections, voter suppression, growth of white supremacist organizations — are hard to miss if — IF — you’ve learned about the Reconstruction Era. 2/7 zinnedproject.org/campaigns/teac…
A report we are releasing next week, analyzing how Reconstruction shows up in state standards — in all 50 states plus D.C. — shows that most states do a dismal job of helping educators teach a robust history of the era. 3/7 zinnedproject.org/news/national-…
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6 Jan
"The progress of events has swept away that pseudo-government which rested on greed, pride, & tyranny; and the race whom he then ruthlessly spurned and trampled on are here to meet him in debate, & to demand that the rights which are enjoyed. . . " #tdih 1874 R. Elliott, 1/5 🧵
"by their former oppressors — who vainly sought to overthrow a Government which they could not prostitute to the base uses of slavery — shall be accorded to those who even in the darkness of slavery kept their allegiance true to freedom & the Union." #tdih 1874 Rep R. Elliott 2/5
"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 Civil Rights Act. #TeachReconstruction

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1 Jan
Jan. 1 #tdih 🧵

#1 Haitian Independence #tdih 1804 "We owe much to Walker for his appeal; to John Brown. . . but we owe incomparably more to Haiti . . . I regard her as original pioneer emancipator of 19th cent. — Frederick Douglass ⬇️ Art: @rlmartstudio zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/hait…
#2 The Emancipation Proclamation took effect #tdih 1863.

Who did it “emancipate”? And who gets credited?

Read “Rethinkin’ Lincoln” by Bill Bigelow of @RethinkSchools ⬇️ #TeachTruth
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#3 "History, I have often said, is a clock that people use to tell their political time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography." -- John Henrik Clarke (1/1/1915 – 7/12/1998) Born #tdih More ⬇️
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#tdih 1951 Home of Harry T. and Harriette Moore in Mims, Florida was bombed by Klan — killing them both on their silver wedding anniv. #Terrorism

Parents and teachers, the Moores organized w/ @naacp for voting & labor rights and against lynching. 🧵 ⬇️.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/moor…
In the 1930s, Harry and Harriette Moore began organizing for the @NAACP in central Florida. They launched a legal struggle that eventually won equal pay for Black and white teachers.
In 1941, Harry Moore became President and later executive director of the Florida state @NAACP. Under his leadership, the NAACP eventually grew to more than 10,000 members in more than 60 branches across the state.
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#tdih 1951, Paul Robeson submitted a petition (edited by William Patterson) to the U.N. titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists. 🧵 zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we_c…
With the Cold War raging, the U.S. gov't maneuvered to prevent the U.N. Commission on Human Rights from formally debating or even considering the charges brought in the petition.

[One of countless examples of the white supremacist goals/purpose of "Cold War" and McCarthyism.]
U.S. corporate media gave scant coverage to the petition or the crimes it documented. The few Gov't officials who commented on the petition described it as “Communist propaganda.” Elsewhere in world [& in US Black press] it was well received & extensively covered in the press.
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