Through the long legacy of people’s historians and storytellers, I’ve learned that history is not made up of grand figures who simply rose up and changed things (like I learned in textbooks from school), but rather everyday, ordinary people like you and me…
…that mobilized, built coalitions, and demanded justice.
We make history every day and it is in our actions and our relationships that we can forge new futures one day at a time.
.@zinneducationproject offers free downloadable people’s history lessons.
In the wake of legislative attacks to teaching the truth, we must continue to fight against erasure & #TeachTruth that shows a long history of people rising up and resisting.