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#tdih 1900 At Lincoln bday event, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first publicly performed by 500 school children at Stanton School in Jacksonville, Fla.

School principal James Weldon Johnson wrote the words & his brother Rosamond set them to music. ⬇️🧵
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Art on book cover in tweet ⬆️ is by sculptor & printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett.

Don't know her art & story? Read here via @TheRoot
incl. attacks under McCarthyism: theroot.com/happy-95th-bir…

Introduce her life to students with lesson, "Subversives": zinnedproject.org/materials/subv… Black and white photo of Elizabeth Catlett, seated, wearing
Picture book "Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations" by @kelstarly introduces young readers to 120-yr history of song & its role through Great Migration, Jim Crow, Civil Rights Movement, HBCU graduations, @NMAAHC opening, & today. zinnedproject.org/materials/lift…
Learn and teach about history of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” with award-winning book for high school & adults, "May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem" by @imaniperry (also author of "South to America") via @UNC_Press. #TeachTruth⬇️
bookshop.org/a/7256/9781469…
Can you teach about "Lift Every Voice" in Fla. & other states with chilling anti-history ed gag laws?

Below are stories from Florida history, central to history, music, & language arts. There are countless more. Defend right to #TeachOutsideTextbook. ⬇️
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Feb 11
#tdih 1990, Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years.

The U.S. gov't classified Mandela a terrorist.

While Mandela was in jail, U.S. corporate investment in apartheid South Africa grew, & R. Reagan had policy of “constructive engagement.” 🧵
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Hundreds of thousands of people in U.S. & around the world mobilized to oppose apartheid in the 1980s. That successful movement built on decades of links between African liberation movements & activists in the U.S. Rosa Parks in photo ⬇️in D.C. & SNCC in next tweet. #TeachTruth Book cover, No Easy VictoriesRosa Parks (wearing hat and glasses) with Freedom Yes, Apart
In March, 1966, James Forman, John Lewis, Bill Hall, Cleve Sellers, & Willie Ricks occupied 14th floor of South African Consulate to “protest the inhuman and barbaric system of apartheid by the South African government.” Read more via @snccdigital at
snccdigital.org/events/sncc-pr… Demonstrators with signs at Chase-Manhattan Bank, March 19,
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Feb 9
#tdih 1950 Wisc. Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech in WV; he claimed to hold list of known communists (“enemies from within”) in U.S. State Dep't.

Ask students: What was impact of McCarthyism on labor, civil rights, & anti-colonial movements? 🧵zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mcca…
"The textbook periodization of anti-communist repression, which posits

-- the Red Scare in years following WWI, &
-- the 2nd Red Scare in late 1940s & early 1950s,

ERASES the continuity & pervasiveness of anti-communist politics & policies. . ." -- ⬇️
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"Whenever organizers challenged the status quo — racism, sexism, capitalism, militarism, & colonialism — its defenders screamed 'communism.' [Yet] . . .it has always been about a lot more than Russian spies, a blustering senator from Wisconsin, and a blacklist in Hollywood."
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Feb 8
You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970). Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 🧵Read ⬇️
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The three young men murdered were Henry Smith and Samuel Hammond Jr., both SCSU students, and Delano Middleton, a local student at Wilkinson HS on his way home.

Listen to this @StoryCorps interview with Hammond Jr.’s sisters. #TeachOutsideTextbook
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SNCC organizer Cleveland Sellers was arrested for inciting a riot & sentenced to a year in prison. He'd been minimally involved and was the only person to serve time for the massacre. (Later served as president of Voorhees College.)

Read: snccdigital.org/people/clevela… at @snccdigital Four men, two with glasses. Cleveland Sellers, with Stokely
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Feb 7
"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-… logo and 2023 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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Feb 1
#tdih 1960, four African-American NC A&T students began a sit-in (planned at Bennett College) at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro.

While not first sit-in of modern CRM, it triggered wave of direct action U.S. & founding of SNCC. 🧵#TeachTruth
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"The Greensboro sit-ins inspired mass movement across the South. By April 1960, 70 southern cities had sit-ins of their own. Direct-action sit-ins made public what Jim Crow wanted to hide – Black resistance to segregation." via youth-led @snccdigital⬇️
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Read about earlier sit-ins: 1943 with Pauli Murray & other @HowardU students; 1958 with high school teacher Clara Luper & NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma; 1958 with students Ron Walters and members of the @NAACP Youth Council in Wichita, Kansas, & more.
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Jan 31
WWII vet Louis Allen was murdered #tdih 1964. Why?

Allen was willing to testify about murder he had witnessed of African American @NAACP member & SNCC supporter Herbert Lee by a white state legislator.

FBI refused protection. #TeachVotingRights🧵
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Allen knew his life was in danger in Amite County, Miss. He stayed because his mother was elderly & needed care.

When his mother died, Allen made plans to move to Milwaukee. (Great Migration continues.)

The night before Allen was to leave, he was murdered. #terrorism
Traditional Civil Rights Movement narratives ignore that fight for civil, voting, & human rights was frequently met with terrorist violence, as exemplified by story of Louis Allen and countless others. #TeachOutsideTextbook

See more in @snccdigital ➡️
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