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Feb 1 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Join us in listening to @1a (Feb. 1, 11am ET) to hear @AfricanaCarr, @KidadaEWilliams, & @MelisandeColo talking about legacy of Reconstruction, our report, and the not-to-be-missed (closes end of Aug. 2022) "Make Good the Promises" exhibit at @NMAAHC ⬇️
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"The violence we experience in the present day in 2020 (murder of George Floyd, massacre at Mother Emanuel Church, and more), has a deep history that traces back to Reconstruction. It is a war on freedom." -- Kidada E. Williams, Seizing Freedom podcast ⬇️
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Greg Carr references W. E. B. Du Bois's description, in "The Souls of Black Folk," of the missed opportunity of Reconstruction.

Note -- there is a new edition of Du Bois's classic, must-read "Black Reconstruction."
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Listeners to @1a can learn more about Reconstruction and how it is taught (or not) in our new report, “Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction.” Check out the assessment for your state. ⬇️

teachreconstructionreport.org
During tour of @NMAAHC exhibit, @1a highlighted story of family members seeking to be reunited.

In addition to visiting NMAAHC's "Make Good the Promises," check out website "Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery" for hundreds of primary documents ⬇️.
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. @KidadaEWilliams speaks to need to look at history of Reconstruction in ALL of U.S. & @AfricanaCarr gives example of Philadelphia Black educator, baseball player, & civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto, murdered by a white supremacist on election day.
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The Black institutions use Reconstruction to engage in a form of local sovereignty. To teach Reconstruction, look at the primary documents, the speeches by elected Black leaders to advocate for public education. -- @AfricanaCarr
Professor @AfricanaCarr mentioned thread of resistance from SNYC to SNCC. In addition to Reconstruction, stories of organizing in the early to mid-20th century are also left out of the textbooks. Read about youth-led SNYC below.
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Feb 4
This week, tchrs signed up at ZEP to access people's history lessons in Memphis; Topeka; Waco & El Paso; Tampa; Noblesville, IN; Stone Mountain, Albany, & Athens, GA; Rogersville, TN; Columbia & Lancaster, SC; the Bronx; & many more cities.
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In response to "how did you find our people's history site?", a teacher wrote: "Honestly, there was a call for us to 'self-report' if we taught this. I was more intrigued than ever, & I came to return to this decades after my grad studies. I'm happy to be here and involved now."
And teachers from every state (close to 8,000) continue to pledge to #TeachTruth, meaning they will not censor U.S. history (& other subjects) in their classrooms & they will encourage critical thinking and dialogue. Read selected pledges ⬇️& add your own.
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Jan 31
WWII vet Louis Allen was murdered #tdih 1964. Why?

Allen was willing to testify about murder he had witnessed of African American @NAACP member & SNCC supporter Herbert Lee by a white state legislator.

FBI refused protection. #TeachVotingRights 1/6 zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wwii…
Allen knew his life was in danger if he stayed in Amite County, Miss. but he had to care for his elderly mother.

When his mother passed away, Allen made plans to move to Milwaukee. (Great Migration continues.)

The night before Allen was to leave, he was killed. #terrorism 2/6
Traditional Civil Rights Movement narratives ignore that fight for civil, voting, and human rights was often met with terrorist violence, as exemplified by story of Louis Allen and countless others. #TeachOutsideTextbook 3/6

See more in @snccdigital ⬇️
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Jan 23
#tdih 1964, Amendment ratified to eradicate poll tax in federal elections. Read ⬇️

Two yrs later, Vernon Dahmer killed for offering to pay poll taxes in Miss. (See 🧵)

#tdih is also birthday of SNCC vet & voting rights organizer Bob Moses (1935 - 2021).
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Jan. 1966: Vernon Dahmer said on radio he'd pay Miss. poll tax for anyone who couldn't afford to register to vote.

Next day, Klan firebombed his home, killing Dahmer. His sons, in U.S. military to "defend democracy" overseas, returned home for funeral.
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In March 1966, SCOTUS banned poll taxes for state & local elections in 1963 lawsuit initiated by Joseph Jordan Jr., a Norfolk attorney on behalf of Evelyn T. Butts. (Virginia poll tax had been made law in 1902, to reverse Reconstruction era gains.) See⬇️

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Jan 21
Politicians on the Right keep claiming that the proposed voting rights legislation is an illegitimate "federal takeover" of fed elections. @jbouie refutes those claims in his new column ⬇️, & so has the 15th Amendment since Reconstruction. . . #TeachTruth
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See "Reconstruction Defined" in our new national report. Here we note that 15th Amendment federally banned racial discrimination in right to vote, and explicitly gave Congress power to enforce this principle.
Read ⬇️ and check out your state's assessment.
teachreconstructionreport.org/#what%20was%20…
15th Amendment soon yielded criminal penalties for interference with right to vote & federal oversight of congressional elections through Enforcement Acts of 1870 & 1871. Overtly violated ever since, including Jan. 6 attack on Capitol. #TeachVotingRights
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Jan 21
#tdih 1848 "Our nation seems resolved to rush on in her wicked career, though the road be ditched with human blood, and paved with human skulls. Well, be it so." -- Frederick Douglass on U.S. war with Mexico, in North Star editorial. 1/4 zinnedproject.org/materials/nort…
"The taste of human blood and the smell of powder seem to have extinguished the senses, seared the conscience, and subverted the reason of the people." -- Frederick Douglass on U.S. war with Mexico 2/4

Editorial read by Benjamin Bratt ⬇️for @vph
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"Let the press, the pulpit, the church, the people at large, unite at once; & let petitions flood the halls of Congress . . ., asking for the instant recall of our forces from Mexico. This may not save us, but it's our only hope." --Frederick Douglass 3/4
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Jan 20
#tdih 1870, Hiram Revels was elected to serve as senator from Mississippi, becoming first African American to serve in U.S. Senate.

Do you know how many African Americans have served in U.S. Senate to date? #TeachReconstruction
#TeachTruth Read ⬇️
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In a white supremacist attempt to prevent Revels from assuming his elected position, his opponents said that despite having lived in U.S. all his life, he could not be seated because Senate required nine years of citizenship. The 14th Amendment had passed only two years earlier.
Attack on Revels, & rights of people of Miss. to representation: part of history of white supremacist voter suppression & attempts to delegitimize elected Black leaders: not seating Julian Bond, Trump's (media fueled) birther campaigns, & more. Lessons ⬇️
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