Thread by @ZinnEdProject

"This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom." — Carter G. Woodson

#tdih 1926, Woodson initiated Negro History Week which led to Black History Month. 🧵⬇️
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Carter Woodson pressed for schools to use Negro History Week to demonstrate what students learned ALL year.

Woodson co-founded the "Association for the Study of African American Life and History" @ASALH which continues with an annual theme.

See asalh.org/black-history-…

"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands. . .on another." — Claudette Colvin 3/2/1955 (days after Black History Month at her school)
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Next time you are in DC, visit the Carter G. Woodson statue and National Park Service historic site @WoodsonNHS

See: nps.gov/cawo/index.htm

#TeachOutsideTextbook Photo by @scotteabbott

Along with Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," one of the most important core texts to read about schooling is Carter Woodson's "The Miseducation of the Negro."

Published in 1933, it is relevant today. New edition with intro by @jarvisrgivens ⬇️
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Picture book ⬇️ chronicles Woodson’s early life.

While working in Appalachian coal mines, Woodson read newspaper to fellow miners.

Their questions led Woodson to conduct research & later to pursue higher ed, including getting a doctorate at Harvard.
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More in book ⬇️"In this transformative work, @jarvisrgivens rigorously examines critical pedagogy as an essential element in the Black intellectual tradition and, indeed, one situated at the very heart of Black Studies from its beginnings.”— @imaniperry
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"This effort to stomp out CRT [is] an effort to make antiracism unspeakable, to make queer studies undoable, to make intersectionality . . . something that students can't take or can only take if states allows them to. -- @sandylocks via @democracynow ⬇️
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