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#tdih 1890, Mississippi adopted new constitution with poll tax & arbitrary literacy tests to end progress of Reconstruction for African Americans. Precedent for other states. See SNCC's 1964 Mississippi: Subversion of Right to Vote ⬇️🧵#TeachReconstruction zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/miss…
"Every Southern state instituted literacy tests and poll taxes to effectively remove African Americans from the citizenship they were supposed to have been guaranteed by the 14th Amendment." -- James Loewen #TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth
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For young adults, "Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights."

YA book includes impact on voting rights of Constitutional Convention, Civil War, 13th & 14th amendments, the 1965 VRA and its dismantling by the Supreme Court in 2013.
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Novel "The Voting Booth" for grades 7+ weaves in history and current struggles for voting rights. Protagonist has cat named Selma.

Book lives up to its dedication to Fannie Lou Hamer. By @brandycolbert Read more ⬇️
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Take just nine minutes to watch film ⬇️about Citizenship Schools in 1950s where African Americans risked their lives to teach/learn literacy skills for the voter registration requirements in the South.

Produced by @LitProjectFilms and streams free.

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From limits to ballot drop boxes to required witness signatures for mail-in ballots, GOP is undermining fair elections.

Tactics are not new. It's critical that students learn long history of fight for voting rights. Textbook critique + 3 free lessons ⬇️
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Don't skip mid-terms: vote in school board elections. The rightwing has invested a lot of money, but we have the numbers.

Take action in defense of teachers and in defense of young people learning from history to shape a better future. #TeachTruth
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In this new article on "Moms for Liberty," @williams_paige details McCarthyism like tactics being used in a Tenn. district & across U.S. to attack & initimidate teachers, admin., school boards.

A chilling effect.

Speak out, vote & defend public educ.
newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
“You’ve heard about gerrymandering our vote, gerrymandering our districts. . . [they are also] gerrymandering our history . . . to undermine our ability to link our present to the past.” -- Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) in article by @JanellRoss ⬇️
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Nov 3
#tdih Nov. 3 🧵starts with uplifting 1874 Reconstruction election of Robert Smalls to Congress (SC) ⬇️

Next: stories of violent 19th cent. voter suppression in Va. & Ala., Native American protest ('72), Greensboro Massacre ('79), Iran/Contra ('86), more.
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#tdih 1874, White League attacked Black voters at the polls in Barbour County, Ala.

7 African-Americans were killed & 70 others wounded.

More than 1,000 African-Americans were driven away from polls. Rewrite the marker. #terrorism #TeachReconstruction
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#tdih 1883 Danville, Virginia: White supremacists used terrorism to remove the elected, biracial Readjuster Party.

Armed white supremacists killed five people and patrolled streets to prevent most African Americans from voting. #terrorism #TeachTruth
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Oct 16
#tdih 1968 We all recognize iconic photo of Black Power salute by Tommie Smith & John Carlos at Olympics. But, what were their demands? What happened before & after? How did they organize? Role of Peter Norman? Read ⬇️ @EdgeofSports #TeachOutsideTextbook
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OPHR central demands:
- restore Muhammad Ali’s heavyweight boxing title;
- remove Avery Brundage as head of the International Olympic Committee;
- hire more African American coaches; and
- disinvite South Africa and Rhodesia from Olympics.
#tdih 1968 ⬇️
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Avery Brundage's racism & anti-Semitism (see U.S. & the Holocaust series) go way back & should have been addressed decades before Olympic Project for Human Rights had to demand his removal.

See story ⬇️ by @EdgeofSports and @JulesBoykoff via @thenation
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Oct 5
#tdih 1986 Iran-Contra conspiracy began to unravel when Hasenfus captured by Nicaraguan troops.

U.S. gov't used illegal weapons sales to Iran proceeds to illegally support Contras.

Bill Barr assisted with cover-up. Read ⬇️
#TeachCentralAmerica
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"So Iran/Contra was . . . a way both to bypass specific restrictions in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate . . . and to neutralize a more diffuse antiwar and anti-interventionist sentiment that had overcome the American public." -- @GregGrandin ⬇️
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"Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized and disjointed, leaving students ill-equipped to make sense out of their nation’s global bullying." -- @LadyOfSardines

Defend right to #TeachPeoplesHistory
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Sep 19
#tdih 1868 Camilla Massacre, Albany, GA. After being expelled from elected office, African Americans & a few whites marched to speak out at a political rally.

Whites opened fire, pursued, & massacred marchers. Followed by more #VoterSuppression. Read⬇️
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"The year 1868 comes up in textbooks as significant only because of the election of Ulysses S. Grant. This focus on those at the top, misses the groundswell of activity that made the year so explosive." -- Read below about advances and repression in 1868.
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The Camilla Massacre of 1868 is a key story in Reconstruction & voting rights history.

Yet, we've not seen it in other major, national "this day in history" timelines.

Students can advocate for greater recognition of this history. #TeachReconstruction zinnedproject.org/news/make-reco…
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Sep 16
On this Mexican Independence Day #tdih, we shine a light on a book we HIGHLY recommend, "Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, & Revolution in the Borderlands," by @klytlehernandez. A thrilling narrative.

Listen to one-minute audiogram about "pride of insurrection" ⬇️ and more in this 🧵
Práxedis Gilberto Guerrero Hurtado had the power of the pen and the sword, with quips like:

-- If you can't get to freedom by walking, then run.

Listen to more on one minute audiogram ⬇️ from talk by Kelly Lytle Hernández on history leading up to 1910 Mexican Revolution.
Did you know?

Insurgents who challenged Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz and U.S. imperialism in early 20th century operated at times in US & were pursued by early FBI and other US agencies protecting Díaz.

Learn story from June event recording below. zinnedproject.org/news/hernandez…
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Sep 11
#tdih Sept.11, we share a 🧵 of tragic anniversaries incl. at Attica Prison, U.S. backed coup in Chile, Myrna Mack murder in Guatemala, attacks on WTC and Pentagon, & more. We include "Whose 'Terrorism'?" lesson.

In their memory, let us teach and work for peace and justice.
#tdih 1971 Prisoners at Attica presented a manifesto consisting of 28 demands to NY State officials.

They were in midst of uprising (9/9 - 9/13) that ended in brutal repression.

Find teaching resources ⬇️, including primer on Attica from @projectnia zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/atti…
#tdih 1973 Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende was killed in a U.S.-backed coup.

As a direct result, this was followed by decades of brutal dictatorship. #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/salv…
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