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May 8 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
#tdih 1959 Palo Verde, La Loma, & Bishop were close-knit Mexican American communities, founded in 1840s, that the city of LA destroyed to make way for land that would be used for Dodger Stadium.

Longtime residents displaced from homes and community.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/chav…
"My family and I fought every way we knew how to stay in our home in Chavez Ravine. Police had to carry my daughter, Aurora Vargas from our house. . . we lost our home and our land, but we didn’t lose our pride because we fought with everything we had." -- Manuel Arechiga
Frank Wilkinson, representative from L.A. Housing Authority who came to defense of the families, was targeted and jailed by House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). (Real purpose of #RedScare)

Read article by @KatrinaNation via @thenation here: thenation.com/article/archiv… Man in suit, wearing glasses (Frank Wilkinson) pointing at a
Wilkinson's is one of countless stories that reveal true nature of #RedScare & McCarthyism.

"The Red Scare was a scorched-earth policy against the country’s most progressive forces." -- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca (@LadyOfSardines) in lesson for grades 7+ below.
zinnedproject.org/materials/subv…
Teach about patterns of displacement and wealth inequality through this lesson by Linda Christensen of
@rethinkschools.

Students examine history of Chávez Ravine and housing in their own communities where system continues to put profit over people. zinnedproject.org/materials/stea…
"Why don't they play ball in [Mayor Norris] Poulson's backyard — not in ours?'" — Avrana Arechiga

Listen to episode of @NPRCodeSwitch podcast, “Remembering The Lost Communities Buried Under Center Field” here: npr.org/sections/codes… Los Angeles police officers forcibly removed Chavez Ravine r
Lawmakers in 42 states have introduced legislation or pursued other measures to ban teaching about "divisive concepts" & role of racism & other forms of oppression throughout U.S. history.

Read more & join us on June 11-12 to defend right to #TeachTruth: zinnedproject.org/news/teach-tru… Text: Lawmakers across the United States are trying to stop
Learn more from @BuriedunderBlue and sign a petition with multiple demands, including "reparations from the agencies that destroyed our three communities and robbed the generational wealth of the people of Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop."
See below.
buriedundertheblue.com

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May 7
"Pray not for your mom and pop. They’ve gone to heaven. Pray you can make it through this hell." -- Rev. George Lee

Shot to death #tdih 1955 because he used pulpit & printing press to urge African Americans to vote in Belzoni, Miss. Led local @NAACP. ⬇️
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Earlier that month, Rev. Lee spoke at Regional Council of Negro Leadership convening in all-Black town of Mound Bayou.

Journalist Simeon Booker of Jet, observed how Lee’s “down-home dialogue and his sense of political timing” had “electrified” the crowd. zinnedproject.org/materials/shoc…
The sheriff claimed Rev. Lee died in a car accident & that the lead pellets that filled his face from shotgun buckshot were "dental fillings torn loose by impact of the crash."

In fact, he was murdered by white supremacists who were protected by "law enforcement." #TeachTruth
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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
teachreconstructionreport.org
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 5
#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…
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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.)
teachreconstructionreport.org
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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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