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#tdih 1870, Hiram Revels was sworn into office as senator from Mississippi, becoming the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Do you know how many African Americans have served in the Senate to date? #TeachReconstruction
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In a white supremacist attempt to prevent Revels from assuming his elected position, his opponents said that despite living in U.S. all his life, he could not be seated b/c Senate required 9 years of citizenship. The 14th Amend. had passed only two years earlier. ("birtherism")
Story of Revels is one of countless examples of why we need to #TeachReconstruction.

Check out our report: “Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction.”

Find state assessments & resources. See: teachreconstructionreport.org Quote and photo by middle school teacher Lois Hammond.

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Feb 26
"Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest . . ." -- Ella Baker

#tdih 2012 Murder of Trayvon Martin, Sanford, Fla. 🧵
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Trayvon Martin was murdered in Sanford on land that had been home of Mayaca people, later the Seminoles.

Town incorporated during Reconstruction. Named for Henry Sanford who secured US recognition of King Leopold II’s colonial claim to the Congo. ⬇️
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#tdih 1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist & Baptist church deacon, was shot by state troopers in Marion, Ala. during peaceful voting rights march.

His murder was catalyst for Selma to Montgomery march, attacked by troopers on Bloody Sunday.
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Feb 23
Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of @NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, & editor of NAACP’s @thecrisismag. 🧵 ⬇️
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"One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. . . The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that . . . it paints perfect man & noble nations, but it does not tell the truth." ― W.E.B. DuBois Text: "One is astonished in the study of history at the
"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." -- W. E. B. Du Bois in "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935), reissued 2021.

Video ⬇️of talk on book by Eric Foner, @KeeangaYamahtta, & @HenryLouisGates ⬇️
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Feb 19
#tdih 1968, 27,000+ teachers & administrators from Florida Education Assoc. walked out.

First U.S. statewide teachers strike. (Later banned in Fla.)

Focus on salary, school budget, & overall failure of Florida legislators to fund public ed. Read ⬇️🧵
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Corporate media lambasted teachers.

STUDENTS offered most support for strike with WALKOUTS for better schools. Strike was continuation of CRM activism & strengthened by '66 integration of Fla. teachers unions.

See related @RethinkSchools book ⬇️.
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This is one of many people's history stories in Florida history that could be labeled too "controversial" to teach -- in Florida & other states.

What's the "danger" of these stories? That young people learn from the past how to shape a more just future.
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Feb 17
#tdih 1942, Huey Newton was born in Monroe, LA. His family (sharecroppers) fled to Oakland as part of Great Migration after his father was almost lynched. (h/t @Isabelwilkerson) Newton co-founded Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966. Read more ⬇️
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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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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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