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Mar 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In face of Mississippi Gov.'s bill to prohibit teaching honestly about U.S. history, should we send more people's history books to Miss. teachers? Read their inspiring responses ⬇️from this offer two yrs ago when Gov. proposed similar budget language.
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"We have been feeding them a white-washed history for so long and we have to put an end to it somewhere. I don't mind it starting with me!" -- Social Studies Teacher at Quitman County Middle School, Marks, Mississippi
"It’s our job to create a generation of questioners and critical thinkers. Teaching them to think critically about history is a huge start!" -- Social Studies Teacher at Biloxi Upper Elementary Middle School, Biloxi, Mississippi
"I am appalled at how history is being erased and whitewashed. I witness it every single day. I would like to help dispel the myths and educate students with the truth." — Middle School Science Teacher, Tishomingo, Mississippi
Mississippi K-12 public school teachers and librarians, request a people's history book and a lesson on Reconstruction on the link below. (We still have some on hand!)

Not a teacher? Donate so that we can send more.

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#tdih 1960 SC college students, labeled outside agitators & Communist for protests of segregation, were violently attacked by police & placed in a stockade.

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For #InternationalWomensDay, we share highlights from our online class with @marthasjones_ & @_cierrajade_ and curriculum workshop on "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote . . ."

Watch video on link below and find related resources.
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#tdih 1971 A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn. & stole docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt and destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs. Read⬇️ #TeachTruth
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