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#tdih 1905 Robert Abbott founded "Chicago Defender" -- goal: “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed.”

Paper had a national audience and a major influence on Great Migration, culture, & the struggle for civil and human rights. Read ⬇️& see @blackpast zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/chic…
In articles, lessons, textbooks, podcasts about 20th century, they often identify "Black press" but otherwise report on "the press."

The "white press" or "corporate media" should also be named as such.

Always ask: What did Black press report at time? zinnedproject.org/materials/news…
We recommend the documentary "The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords" by @StanleyNelson1 via California Newsreel.

Any study of U.S. history should include central, critical role of Black press, & the constant threats and attacks by white supremacists. zinnedproject.org/materials/sold…
On #SeizingFreedom episode⬇️, @KidadaEWilliams interviews @AdamSerwer on how white press put forward conspiracy theories, misinformation, & slander (like anti-CRT campaign today) & how pioneering journalists like Ida B. Wells identified & called them out.
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Join us on Monday to hear from Kidada E. Williams, in conversation with @JessedHagopian, about stories in both seasons of invaluable podcast #SeizingFreedom.

Focus on Reconstruction & resistance to Jim Crow.

Classes are free & interactive. Sign up ⬇️
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May 6
Since news broke of SCOTUS draft to overturn Roe, we've seen many people say some version of:

"Never before in U.S. history has a constitutional right been taken away."

Well, the history of Reconstruction tells us otherwise.
#TeachReconstruction 🧵1/7
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During Reconstruction, the Constitution finally became a document that people could cite in arguments for equality.

14th Amend., ratified in 1868, demanded equal protection of the laws & due process of law for all people. It authorized Congress to enforce these principles. 2/7
But soon after its enactment, SCOTUS interpreted the 3 Reconstruction Amend's (13th, 14th, 15th) extremely narrowly & Congress retreated from its commitment to use them to protect Black people & democracy itself from white supremacist terror & fraud. 3/7
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May 2
When teaching Memphis Massacre, start with freedpeople who built schools, churches, homes.

#tdih May 1-3,1866, white civilians & police killed, with impunity, 46 African-Americans & injured many more, while burning houses, schools, & churches.

Read ⬇️
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"What is often left out of the discussion of Reconstruction is a true and complete account of this violence. If students and scholars want to know truth about this time period . . . study testimony of Blacks and their white allies." via @S_L_Alexander
Read about history of Reconstruction in this national report, "Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction," on state standards with teaching stories from all 50 states & D.C. (Look up your state.)
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Apr 15
#tdih 1848 in Washington, D.C. 77 enslaved people (adults & children) made a brave, carefully planned escape on the Pearl schooner from slavery.

Tragically, they were apprehended and faced brutal consequences.

#TeachOutsidetTextbook #TeachTruth Read ⬇️
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One of the planners of the escape on the Pearl schooner was Paul Jennings who'd been formerly enslaved to President and Mrs. Madison.

Learn more in "The Black History of the White House" by @HowardU professor Clarence Lusane via @CityLightsBooks ⬇️
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We recommend the biography below for young readers (middle school and above) about teenager Emily Edmonson who was one of 77 people who bravely attempted to escape slavery in Washington, D.C. on the Pearl schooner. #TeachOutsideTextbook
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Apr 15
With Jackie Robinson Day tomorrow (April 15), check out this one minute history lesson by Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) on central role of Black athletes in Black Freedom Struggle with a focus on Olympian Wilma Rudolph and her actions in Tennessee.
See more: zinnedproject.org/news/two-year-…
Did you know that in 1944, Jackie Robinson refused to move to back of the bus & was court-martialed?

Read letter he wrote to secretary of war notifying him that if not resolved, he was going to the Black press and NAACP.

Find out what happened next ⬇️
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This month also marks 60th anniversary of Dodger Stadium.

The Mexican American communities of Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop organized to protect their homes, but were forcibly evicted. City official who defended them was red-baited & jailed by HUAC. ⬇️
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Apr 5
#tdih 1979, the Boston University faculty union called a strike. Howard Zinn was one of the strike committee co-chairs.

In this centennial, #HowardZinn100, read ⬇️ about the strike from Zinn's autobiography, "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train."

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BU alum @dcolapinto said: "Labor leaders [like Cesar Chavez] would come to say a few words in solidarity with striking workers. The librarian union and clerical & staff unions joined the faculty strike."

Strike photos by Spencer Grant ⬇️via @BPLBoston. flickr.com/photos/boston_…
After faculty strike settled, a few (“B.U. Five,” as they came to be known) showed solidarity with ongoing staff & librarian strike by holding classes outside or off-campus. B.U. Pres. John Silber escalated the fight. Read ⬇️by @dcolapinto via @ZinnDigital
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Mar 27
When was one of the first (recorded that is) organized protests of segregation on a bus or streetcar?”

Answer: #tdih 1867, after a Freedmen’s meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.

#TeachReconstruction

Read more ⬇️and see book by @profblmkelley
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"Between 1900 and 1910, in more than two dozen cities, African Americans tried to stem the tide of their exclusion from public life by taking the fight to the streets." -- Seizing Freedom podcast episode by @KidadaEWilliams on streetcar boycotts ➡️
seizingfreedom.vpm.org/walk-the-stree… graphic of streetcar with people walking above, carrying sig
As Black women fought for right to vote, they had to travel to polls -- and therefore confront white supremacy on public transportation as well. Read about this history in "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote. . . " by @marthasjones_

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