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Jan 8 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
#tdih 1811: 500+ Africans, from 50 nations & speaking dozens of languages, waged a strategic battle for their freedom & to end slavery & white supremacy.

Which side did U.S. troops and territorial militias take?

Read ⬇️ by Leon Waters. @HiddenHistoryLa
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And yes, we all know answer to question ⬆️.

But as Lerone Bennett Jr. explained in his books, there have been forks in road throughout history & choices made. Nothing inevitable.

Helps students recognize options that exist today & the need to organize.
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See the 2019 re-enactment of the German Coast Uprising of 1811, which took place in the river parishes just outside of New Orleans.

Re-enactment envisioned and organized by artist @DreadScottArt, documented by filmmaker John Akomfrah. See videos here: slave-revolt.com Slave Rebellion Reenactment...
Teach about the ways that enslaved people constantly, creatively, strategically, & bravely resisted and challenged the brutal institution of slavery and white supremacy.

Free lesson ⬇️for gr 7+ from @RethinkSchools teaching guide to #TeachOutsideTextbook
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Learn more about 1811 Revolt at @WhitPlantation near New Orleans. (A MUST visit.) See: whitneyplantation.org

Read about Whitney Plantation & more sites in powerful book by @ClintSmithIII, "How the Word Is Passed."

More on book & classroom lessons ⬇️
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Jan 11
"Thousands of largely female workers engaged in a successful walkout, standing firm against mill owners, militia, & police. Meetings were translated into nearly 30 languages." -- Robert Forrant on Lawrence, Mass. Bread and Roses Strike, began #tdih 1912 ⬇️
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Contrary to standard narrative, Bread & Roses Strike was not a spontaneous walkout. The pay cut was flashpoint, but block-by-block neighborhood organizing had taken place for months in advance of the New Year. Workers were fed up & they were ready. @iww
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"To suggest that 1912 strike started in a flash over a wage cut diminishes purposeful behavior of immigrant laborers who built unity out of diversity. It also diminishes the importance of organized labor and other org. efforts to challenge injustices today. . ." -- Robert Forrant
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Jan 10
#tdih 1966: Vernon Dahmer killed when home (family inside) was firebombed by KKK.

Day before he'd offered to pay poll tax for anyone who could not afford to register to vote. #Terrorism (Year AFTER '65 VRA, still poll tax in local Miss. elections.) 🧵
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Four of Dahmer's sons served in U.S. military to "defend democracy," only to have their father murdered in fight for right to vote in US. They came home for funeral. Dahmer active in @NAACP & SNCC ally.

📷 in tweet ⬆️ by Chris McNair (Denise McNair's father) via @JMitchellNews.
"For Mr. Dahmer, voting was only way to move from second class to full citizenship. [As a teenager], I was spellbound as [he talked] about a subject that was so verboten that one could be killed for it." -- SNCC veteran Dr. Joyce Ladner

Read more ⬇️
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Jan 9
#tdih 1967, Julian Bond was finally sworn in as a member of Georgia House of Reps -- after 2 yr battle to claim his elected seat.

In 1965, House had refused to seat Bond because of his statements (on behalf of SNCC) in opposition to Vietnam War. ⬇️ 🧵
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Julian Bond had been elected after a grassroots campaign in Atlanta in 1965.

However, he was not seated in Jan. 1966 when he refused Georgia State Legislature demand to disassociate himself from SNCC.

Follow @snccdigital & @SNCCLegacy

Learn more ⬇️
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While fighting for the right to hold his elected position in the Georgia House of Reps, Julian Bond wrote comic book (graphic novel) below with history and critical analysis of Vietnam War in an easy to read format. Still relevant. #teachoutsidetextbook
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Jan 1
Jan. 1 #tdih 🧵

#1 Haitian Independence #tdih 1804 "We owe much to Walker for his appeal; to John Brown. . . but we owe incomparably more to Haiti . . . I regard her as original pioneer emancipator of 19th cent. — Frederick Douglass ⬇️ Art @rlmartstudio
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Check out the new book "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the U.S." by @lesliemalex

"The imperative role Haiti and the Haitian Revolution played in the growth of Black internationalism, sovereignty and freedom."
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#2 The Emancipation Proclamation took effect #tdih 1863.

Who did it “emancipate”? And who gets credited?

Read “Rethinkin’ Lincoln” by Bill Bigelow of @RethinkSchools⬇️ #TeachTruth #TeachOutsideTextbook
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Dec 28, 2022
#tdih 1960. W. Tenn. Black sharecroppers registered to vote (to break all-white juries which denied fair trial).

White landowners evicted them in cold of winter, “barred them from buying groceries or gas, & from receiving bank loans & medical services.”
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Two of the few Black farmers who owned land provided space for the homeless Tenn. sharecroppers to live in tents while they organized to defend their right to vote.

Black land ownership was key in organizing for vote in Miss. too. See Dirt & Deeds doc ⬇️
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Read picture book by Alice Faye Duncan @AliceFa41743636, illus. by Charly Palmer: "Evicted!" about rural, grassroots Tent City Movement for right to vote.

No fairytale ending. Organizing with voting rights victory, but many lost jobs, forced to move. ⬇️
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Dec 17, 2022
#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.
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