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Dec 17 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
#tdih 1951, Paul Robeson submitted a petition (edited by William Patterson) to the U.N. titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” signed by close to 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists. 🧵
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With the Cold War raging, the U.S. gov't maneuvered to prevent the U.N. Commission on Human Rights from formally debating or even considering the charges brought in the petition.

One of countless examples of white supremacist purpose of "Cold War" & McCarthyism. #TeachTruth
U.S. corporate media gave scant coverage to the petition or the crimes it documented. The few Gov't officials who commented on the petition described it as “Communist propaganda.” Elsewhere in world [& in U.S. Black press] it was well received & extensively covered in the press.
As the Black Freedom Movement gathered strength in the following years, Cold War geo-politics influenced [and justified to public] Washington's reaction to major events like the sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voting rights organizing, and so on.

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On return to U.S, Patterson's passport was seized, he could no longer speak to foreign audiences. Robeson was prevented from leaving U.S. They & other CRC leaders were harassed & persecuted by FBI & other federal agencies for rest of their lives.

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The description in this thread of the 1951 "We Charge Genocide" petition is from "Civil Rights Movement Archives," an invaluable online collection of stories & docs created by veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement (1951-1968).

Read here: crmvet.org/tim/timhis51.h… Text in white on red background: We Charge Genocide The Crim
To learn more about the history in this thread, we recommend the biography of anthropologist and activist Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson by @BarbaraRansby.⬇️
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Read about the role of the Black press in covering stories such as the "We Charge Genocide" petition that were (and still are) either ignored or vilified by the white and corporate media.

See "News for All the People" ⬇️ by @juangon68 & Joseph Torres.
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Engage students in grades 7+ in the lesson below on the long and ongoing struggle for reparations.

Also see lesson on FBI & COINTELPRO. All the lessons at the Zinn Ed Project website are free for download. (Thanks to donations.) #TeachOutsideTextbook
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Meanwhile, many teachers face risks for teaching the history in this 🧵.

Please donate to the Zinn Education Project so that we can continue to make these lessons available for free & defend teachers right to use them, & students' right to learn. See ⬇️
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Dec 6
#tdih 1865. 13th Amendment ratified, officially ends (with big exception) institution of slavery.

The "ownership" & SALE of people had been CENTRAL to U.S. laws and the economy from colonial era to Civil War, in NORTH & South.

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One of the struggles after 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865 (began before & continues today) was for reparations.

Have students read documents from the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association. & work of Callie House. #TeachTruth See⬇️
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U.S. history textbooks don't help students understand the demand for reparations. So HS teacher & ZEP team member @ladyofsardines wrote lesson ⬇️for her students. #TeachOutsideTextbook

As with all lessons at ZEP site, it's free, thanks to your donations.
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Dec 5
#tdih 1955 🧵Montgomery Bus Boycott began.

Powerful organizing story in U.S. history, yet many people associate it with isolated act by Rosa Parks, without context of Parks’ life of activism; decades of public transportation protest; nor role of WPC. ⬇️
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They bravely mimeographed tens of thousands of leaflets to distribute across city. Read more at @NMAAHC nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/jo-a… & watch "Eyes on the Prize." Typed flier calling for boy...
This wasn't 1st protest against discrimination on public transportation. In 1955, Claudette Colvin & other woman took a stand.

For more than a century, there were hundreds of acts of civil disobedience & other protests. This is not a single story. See ⬇️
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Dec 4
#tdih 1969. Assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark -- shot to death by police in their Chicago apartment. #terrorism
Read more ⬇️ and find lessons (free via ZEP) to teach about the Black Panther Party, COINTELPRO, and police. #TeachTruth 🧵zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/blac…
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Teach about this history with lesson below by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, "Through examining FBI documents, students learn the scope of the FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign to spy on, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt all corners of the Black Freedom Movement."
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Nov 28
"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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#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 🧵
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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.
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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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