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Jan 18 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
#tdih 1968 When asked at White House luncheon why young people are angry, Eartha Kitt said, b/c "You send best of this country off to be shot & maimed."

In retaliation for her honesty, her career in U.S. was ruined for 10 years & CIA tracked her. See ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/eart…
Eartha Kitt describes what happened in an interview with Renee Poussaint for Visionary Project. ⬇️

One of many stories in history of U.S. gov't. (and textbooks') erasure & silencing of critique. (See lesson in 🧵on COINTELPRO & current anti-"crt" laws).
In a 1968 video editorial on WGBH Boston, Howard Zinn nominated Eartha Kitt and Dr. Benjamin Spock for Woman and Man of the Year because they “both refused to play the game” by speaking out against the Vietnam War. #HowardZinn100 #TeachTruth

Watch ⬇️

howardzinn.org/collection/kit…
Another example of U.S. gov't. efforts to suppress public critique and organizing is FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign to spy on, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt all corners of the Black Freedom Movement. Below is a lesson for gr. 7+ using primary docs.
zinnedproject.org/materials/coin…
Now there are (anti-"CRT") efforts to require teacher loyalty oaths & prohibit teaching honestly about U.S. history.

E.g.: See S. Dakota story ⬇️ or listen to @ThisAmerLife interview with @DrJamesWhit thisamericanlife.org/758/talking-wh…
Defend right to #TeachTruth
zinnedproject.org/news/north-dak…

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Jan 19
#tdih 1966, Georgia State House refused to seat Julian Bond despite his election (with 82% of vote) as a state rep, because of his endorsement of SNCC statement against U.S. in Vietnam. They denied Bond & the voters their rights. #VoterSuppression
Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/geor…
While fighting for his elected seat, Julian Bond wrote a comic book (graphic novel) about Vietnam War that made connection between struggles of the Vietnamese & of African Americans for self-determination & human rights.
Find link to read in full ⬇️.
zinnedproject.org/materials/viet…
"We maintain that our country’s cry of 'preserve freedom in the world' is a hypocritical mask, behind which it squashes liberation movements which are not bound. . . by the expediencies of US cold war policies." -- SNCC statement on Vietnam war.
Read: zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/samm… Julian Bond standing at mic...
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Jan 17
"We are going to keep watch over the lands of our country so that they truly profit her children." -- Patrice Lumumba, democratically elected prime minister of Republic of the Congo 6/30/1960

#tdih 1961: Lumumba was executed with help of U.S. & Belgium.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/patr…
Learn about Patrice Lumumba and history of colonialism in the Congo from 2011 @DemocracyNow interview ⬇️ with journalist Adam Hochschild, author of "King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa."
democracynow.org/2011/1/21/patr…
When students learn about brutal colonial history of the Congo, they often say they would not have used rubber that came from region.

But what about coltan in cell phones today? See free lessons ⬇️ by Alison Kysia. Art with permission of @EduardoRelero. zinnedproject.org/materials/cong…
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Jan 16
#tdih 1865 demands by Black ministers after Ebenezer Creek Massacre led to Special Field Order #15 -- a short-lived land distribution to freed people. They established civic institutions, schools, militia (to defend from Klan), & more. #TeachReconstruction
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/spec…
"If the government Haveing concluded to befriend Its late enemies. . . "-- Oct. 1865

Read petitions from freedpeople after Johnson ordered that land be restored to former Confederates.

At Freedmen and Southern Society Project, here:
freedmen.umd.edu/Edisto%20petit… h/t
@Stephen_A_West Black text on white background, says: "General we want
We recommend "Crossing Ebenezer Creek," a YA book of historical fiction by @tonyaboldenbook for HS students (and adults) about massacre that led to demands by Black ministers for Field Order #15. (Check out more of Tonya Bolden's books for young readers.)

zinnedproject.org/materials/cros…
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Jan 15
"One generation after another of Americans were assiduously taught these falsehoods [about Reconstruction] & the collective mind of America became poisoned with racism & stunted with myths." -- Dr. Martin Luther King (born #tdih 1929) in Du Bois tribute ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/dr-king-o…
Unfortunately (but no surprise), we found that many of the myths W. E. B. Du Bois and Dr. Martin Luther King described still prevail in state standards on Reconstruction.

Please read & share new national report, "Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle" here: teachreconstructionreport.org short descriptions and b/w images representing findings from
Many states have efforts (grassroots initiated) to tell more honest U.S. history (incl. Reconstruction) -- and now face anti-history ("anti-CRT") attacks to try to limit classes to rote textbook instruction.

State assessments ⬇️incl. relevant bills.
teachreconstructionreport.org
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Jan 14
#tdih 1868 South Carolina constitutional convention met with a majority of Black delegates, adopting a constitution that provided for all people regardless of race, economic class, or gender. "SC Constitution was revolutionary."

#TeachReconstruction 🧵zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/Sout…
"The 1868 Constitution abolished debtors’ prison, provided for public education, rights for women, abolished property ownership as a qualification for office holding. . . Provisions [in schools] for the deaf and blind were also ordered. Black Codes were overturned." And more.
"It was in 1868, in state after state, when Black men, many of them formerly enslaved, gathered with white men, many of them poor & disempowered until Reconstruction, to rewrite the constitutions of the South." - Adam Sanchez

⬇️ w/ Lerone Bennett quotes
zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
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Jan 12
"In aftermath of [Jan. 6] insurrection. . . many leading historians drew parallels between the violence & the Reconstruction era. . ."
What do students learn of era? See TIME article by @OBWax on release of ZEP report on teaching of Reconstruction ⬇️.
time.com/6128421/teachi…
"While many states expected students to know why Reconstruction failed, the report found less of a focus on the era’s successes — or efforts to help ensure Black Americans could be full citizens."
"The researchers also found the standards tended to focus on events on the federal level. . . which can skew teaching towards the actions of white people at the expense of stories of Black Americans’ resilience, whether at the community level . . .
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