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Jun 12 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
#tdih 1963 WWII vet Medgar Evers was murdered by white supremacist in driveway outside his home in Jackson.

Evers was @NAACP field secretary for Mississippi & under constant threat in his fight for democracy & against white supremacy. #TeachTruth See 🧵
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/medg…
Medgar Evers investigated murders of African Americans that police ignored & blocked. He conducted interviews, sought evidence, demanded justice, & exposed white supremacist violence & terrorism. 📷Evers interviews Melton about murder of husband. She "died" before testifying. Woman with four small children sitting on a bed in conversat
Sound familiar?

Not only did the police not investigate murders of African Americans, they blocked efforts by Evers & others to do so.

Evers risked his life to do the work the police were supposed to. #Uvalde

THIS is the history the right is censoring with "anti-CRT" bills.
Read about the investigation of the murder of Medgar Evers (& other white supremacist, Klan murders) in the book by investigative journalist @JMitchellNews (of @MississippiCIR) "Race Against Time." ⬇️

Recommended for grades 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/race…
Teach about the long & ongoing struggle against voter suppression with this free 3-lesson unit by @LadyOfSardines.

Most textbooks end voting rights story in 1965 with VRA, & leave out daily terrorism faced by Medgar Evers & others. #TeachOutsideTextbook
zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…
Defend the right to teach this history.

Most GOP "anti-CRT" bills/laws would require story of Medgar Evers be stripped of institutional racism that motivated his work & led to his death.

Pledge to #TeachTruth or to support teachers who do. See ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/ways-to-p…
Which historic site are you going to today?

On link below, find ways to participate & find signs to download. Or make your own sign.

Then take a photo & share here to #TeachTruth.

Don't let the "anti-CRT" forces dominate the airwaves and narrative.
zinnedproject.org/news/there-is-…

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Jun 11
Young people are taking on the world. Right is trying to squash that activism by censoring lessons. Media gives “anti-CRT” campaign oversized coverage.

We ask EVERYONE (including YOU) reading this tweet to participate in the #TeachTruth Days of Action.
zinnedproject.org/news/there-is-…
The goal of the “anti-CRT” project is to strip the classroom of its potential as a powerful democratic space, where students learn from history how to shape a more just future.

We need to expose the right’s agenda and be visible in our defense of teaching people’s history.
If there is a Teach Truth Day of Action event near you, join in.

Below is list of sites including Anchorage, Berkeley, Colorado Springs, Philadelphia, Providence, Rock Hill (SC), Salem (OH), Seattle, Stone Mountain (GA), Washington, DC, Waterloo, & more.
zinnedproject.org/news/2022-days…
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May 8
#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
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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. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/rev-…
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
zinnedproject.org/materials/they…
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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 ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/1866…
"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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