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"If the Government had the right to free us, she had a right to make some provision for us and since she did not make it soon after Emancipation she ought to make it now." -- Callie House, call for reparations, #tdih 1898 🧵

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Read about Callie House and the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association (first convention #otd 1898) in "My Face Is Black Is True" by Dr. Mary Frances Berry @DrMFBerry. ⬇️
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Reparations for African Americans are absent from most U.S. history textbooks. Therefore, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote a gr. 7+ lesson. Students design a reparations bill for a mock congressional hearing.

Read⬇️ (Note: All lessons at ZEP site are free.)
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Nov 28
Every season of @QueenSugarOWN has been a gift -- cast, directors, setting, music, storyline. Through lives of a Black family -- stories of farming (now & in history), culture, climate change, police brutality, incarceration, politics, immigration, COVID, sports, art, labor, 🧵
. . .elders' knowledge, & so MUCH more.

And SEASON 7 adds fight over education, & how laws to ban teaching history are linked to efforts to steal land from Black farmers.

Shows power of school board -- & need for justice-minded people to vote, testify, & run for school board.
Queen Sugar posted teaching resources on themes from the series including: sharecropping, Great Migration, redlining, Reconstruction, protest, incarceration, inherited knowledge, African traditions, advocacy, arts activism, & more via @ARRAYNow.

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Nov 27
#tdih 1955 Rosa Parks attended mass meeting about Emmett Till, 4 days before her refusal to move on bus.

Parks' (& others') protest was not just in reaction to bus inequities, but also to lynching & criminal "justice" system. ⬇️#TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/rosa…
Read the eye-opening, gripping, beautifully written YA adaptation (with @brandycolbert) of @JeanneTheoharis's bio of Rosa Parks.

Introduces readers to her decades of activism -- long before & after MBB. Also documentary of same name, streams on Peacock.
zinnedproject.org/materials/rebe…
We offer an interactive lesson by @RethinkSchools editor/ZEP co-director Bill Bigelow, based on book by @JeanneTheoharis. Challenges the textbook & mainstream media narratives about Rosa Parks.

For grades 7+, free. ⬇️#TeachTruth
📷by LeRoy Henderson.
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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 23
#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 ⬇️
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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 ⬇️
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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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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.

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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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