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Nov 23 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
#tdih 1887: Thibodaux Massacre. Louisiana militia shot & killed 30 to 60 unarmed Black sugarcane workers, on strike over meager pay issued in scrip, not cash.

No federal inquiry. Assassins unpunished. #terrorism #laborhistory #TeachReconstruction Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/thib…
Thibodaux is one of countless massacres in US history to suppress voting rights, land ownership, economic adv't, education, press freedom, religion, LGBTQ rights, &/or labor rights. (Often called "race riots," they were to maintain white supremacy.) See ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/collection/mas…
To #TeachReconstruction, we offer lessons for gr. 7+, student project to make local Reconstruction history visible, national report, open letter from scholars, & recommended teaching guides, K-12 books, podcasts, primary doc collections, & films.

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teachreconstructionreport.org
See documentary in production on Thibodaux Massacre by @thibodeauxville: thibodeauxvillefilm.com

History is highlighted in @QueenSugarOWN in context of ongoing struggle for land/farming rights of African Americans, white supremacist attacks, & power of organizing in a co-op. Woman with backpack, wearing mask, looking at farm equipment

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Nov 24
#tdih 1947 Congress held “Hollywood 10” in contempt for refusal to testify before House Un-American Activities Comm. (HUAC). Next day, Motion Picture Assoc. fired “Hollywood 10.” Censorship led to more racism, sexism, & militarism in popular media. ⬇️🧵
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"Movies of 1950s did not display any evidence of populist spirit which infused some of more notable ‘30s & ‘40s films. On the contrary, studios complacently turned out . . . movies which. . . debased women, ignored African Americans, & exalted war & imperialism." -- Allen Rivkin
Not in textbooks: "Red Scare was a scorched-earth policy against most progressive forces: labor unions organizing across racial lines; civil rights orgs. . . ; writers, artists, & journalists who advocated internationalism & peace." -- @LadyOfSardines ⬇️
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Nov 22
#tdih 1919 Bogalusa Labor Massacre. Self-Preservation & Loyalty League (SPLL) and Great Southern Lumber Company gunmen killed white allies of African American labor organizer Sol Dacus.

Their goal: undermine interracial union.

Read more ⬇️ #TeachTruth
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As Sol Dacus & Lem Williams organized both Black & white workers, the lumber company made every effort to extinguish their efforts.

Read about Dacus, Williams, & 1919 Bogalusa Labor Massacre in Louisiana in 🧵⬇️ by @LadyOfSardines #TeachOutsideTextbook

There is a long history of white supremacist massacres in U.S. history designed to suppress voting rights, land ownership, economic advancement, education, freedom of the press, religion, LGBTQ+ rights, and/or labor rights.

See ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/collection/mas…
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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 13
#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 ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/materials/the-…
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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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