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Feb 8 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
You've heard of Kent State (1970) and maybe Jackson State (1970). Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/oran…
The three young men murdered were Henry Smith and Samuel Hammond Jr., both SCSU students, and Delano Middleton, a local student at Wilkinson HS on his way home.

Listen to this @StoryCorps interview with Hammond Jr.’s sisters. #TeachOutsideTextbook npr.org/templates/stor…
SNCC organizer Cleveland Sellers was arrested for inciting a riot & sentenced to a year in prison. He'd only been minimally involved. Later serving as president of Voorhees College, he was the only person to serve time for the massacre. @snccdigital Read: snccdigital.org/people/clevela… Four me, two with glasses. Cleveland Sellers, with Stokely C
"This doc should be shown in every schoolroom in America." -- Howard Zinn on "Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968" (California Newsreel), prod by Bestor Cram & SNCC vet/Eyes on the Prize prod. Judy Richardson. Great intro to Black Power movement.
zinnedproject.org/materials/scar…
We offer free lessons for teachers on SNCC, policing, and more. Now we need to defend teachers right to teach this history. And the right of students to critically examine their textbooks. To ask why they learn about Kent State but not Orangeburg, which happened 2 years earlier.

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Feb 9
#tdih 1950 Wisc. Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech in WV; he claimed to hold list of known communists (“enemies from within”) in U.S. State Dep't.

Ask students: What was impact of McCarthyism on labor, civil rights, & anti-colonial movements? zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mcca…
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Ida B. Wells was "countering the propaganda that was justifying a campaign of terrorism . . . political terrorism, not simply what you might think of as mob violence." -- @AdamSerwer in Seizing Freedom interview with @KidadaEWilliams about Black press ⬇️
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"This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom." — Carter G. Woodson

#tdih 1926, Woodson initiated first Negro History Week which led to Black History Month. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/cart…
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#tdih 1866 Rep. Thaddeus Stevens offered amendment to Freedmen's Bill to distribute "public" (stolen from Native nations) land. How would U.S. be different today if land had been distributed to those who'd created the wealth & returned to Native nations? zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/thad…
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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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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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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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Note -- there is a new edition of Du Bois's classic, must-read "Black Reconstruction."
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