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Nov 13 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
#tdih 1953: Ind. textbook commissioner (Mrs. White) called to ban Robin Hood references in schools. Like GOP anti-history ed bills today.

Brave @IUBloomington religious student group (incl. in 📷⬇️) challenged #McCarthyism with Green Feather campaign. 🧵
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"There is a Communist directive in education now to stress the story of Robin Hood. They want to stress it because he robbed the rich & gave it to the poor. That’s Communist line. It’s a smearing of law & order & anything that disrupts law & order is their meat." -- Mrs. White
Five IU students in study group at Baptist church bravely protested. They got poultry feathers, dyed them green, & spread them around campus. Robin Hood is here!

Green Feather movement spread across country. Read about response of FBI and local media ⬇️
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"The anti-CRT campaign is curricular counterpart to the wave of voter suppression laws promoted by same far-right political forces that have tried to rewrite history of 2020 election & cover up attempted Jan. 6 coup." -- @RethinkSchools + more articles⬇️
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As red-baiting is used to attack teachers today, "our students deserve to know that McCarthyism and Red Scare were about a lot more than Russian spies, a blustering senator from Wisconsin, and a Hollywood blacklist." -- @ladyofsardines

See free lesson ⬇️
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The Right has a well-funded campaign to suppress the truth. Officials in at least 42 states have sought, & in many cases succeeded, to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events. Help us fight back & #TeachTruth. Donate ⬇️
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In response to attempts to ban teaching people's history, we offer Green Feather Movement stickers to highlight current resistance and raise awareness about censorship in schools.

Stickers come with informational postcards.

More info and order here: zinnedproject.org/materials/the-… Graphic of green feather on white background with black circ

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Nov 13
While looking forward to keynote speakers at @NCSSNetwork conf. in Phila., we're listening to their podcasts. Like @hmcghee's "Sum of Us." Each episode a story of interracial solidarity. For exp., Manhattan Beach on land taken from Black family in 1924. 🧵open.spotify.com/episode/0rrSqE…
Heather McGhee is an artful storyteller in #TheSumofUsPod.

Listeners learn about Bruce’s Beach Resort (also in #SeizingFreedom pod by @KidadaEWilliams) & 2020's campaign to make amends, repair, reparations.

Would pair well with reparations lesson ⬇️
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Other episodes include stories of campaigns for voting rights, better pay, Black farm land, environmental justice, sundown towns, reproductive rights.

Stories reminiscent of interracial solidarity during Reconstruction & Southern Tenant Farmers Union. All too rare in textbooks.
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Nov 11
#tdih Veterans Day. Read about African American veterans who fought overseas and, upon return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy & human rights.

Also, resources about vets organizing against war and Lincoln Brigades. ⬇️ 🧵#TeachOutsideTextbook
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#VeteransDay WWII vet Maceo Snipes was killed on July 18, 1946 by KKK for bravely casting vote in Georgia Democratic Primary.

He may have survived Klan #terrorism, but Jim Crow hospital denied him treatment. ⬇️#TeachTruth
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#VeteransDay In 1955, WWI vet and farmer Lamar Smith was shot dead in cold blood on crowded courthouse lawn in Miss. for urging African Americans to vote.

No one prosecuted. See @NAACP primer and film by @KeithBeauchamp w/ @jelani9⬇️ #TeachVotingRights
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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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Nov 1
#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
Read ⬇️
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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.
zinnedproject.org/materials/stol…
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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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