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"Because a terrible crime was committed, it does not follow that other wrongs be permitted. . . I will not lend my office to practices which subvert legal processes & deny justice to some because they are poor or Black." -- Judge Crockett #tdih 1969 ⬇️🧵
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"Can you imagine the Detroit Police invading an all-white church & rounding up everyone in sight to be bussed to a wholesale lockup in a police garage? . . . Can anyone explain in other than racist terms the shooting by police into a closed & surrounded church?" -- Judge Crockett Three fold pamphlet with Judge Crockett’s statement and hi
The story above about Judge George Crockett Jr.'s courtroom statement on #otd April 3, 1969 was shared with ZEP by @sayburgin, author of a chapter on Crockett in "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South" ⬇️

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#tdih 1960 SC college students, labeled outside agitators & Communist for protests of segregation, were violently attacked by police & placed in a stockade.

Judge jailed their @NAACP lawyer for “pursuing his case vigorously.” Read ⬇️ via CRMvet website.
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"City passes an ordinance to prohibit picketing. . . Almost 400 students are arrested. Soaking wet from the hoses & rain, shivering from 40-degree weather, they are forced into an outdoor stockade that may have been used in the past for enslaved people." -- CRMvet

#TeachTruth
"They cling together for warmth and sing 'God Bless America,' 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' and newly learned freedom songs like 'We Shall Overcome.'"

"Supporters who try to pass them food and blankets are also arrested." -- CRMvet

Empathy, humanity, & solidarity criminalized.
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Mar 2
#tdih 1955 "I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another, & I could not move. — Claudette Colvin, #TeachTruth ⬇️🧵
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At 15, Claudette Colvin had been politicized by false arrest & torture of her classmate, poet Jeremiah Reeves . . . she refused to move on bus. "'We’d been studying Constitution [in school during #BHM] I knew I had rights.'” -- Read: rosaparksbiography.org/bio/claudette-… via @JeanneTheoharis photo of young man with glasses and white jacket, head and s
Colvin’s case went to trial in May. The judge strategically dropped two charges (for disturbing peace and breaking the segregation law), found her guilty of assaulting officers. Therefore, appealing her case could not directly challenge the segregation law. -- @JeanneTheoharis
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Mar 1
#tdih 1954: Green Feather Movement launched.

Creative effort to expose & resist #RedScare attempt by Indiana Textbook Commission to ban Robin Hood from all school books for "promoting communism because he stole from the rich to give to the poor." 🧵 ⬇️
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In face of Red Scare today, we can learn from five brave IU students.

They dyed chicken feathers green (not easy) & spread them around IU campus to protest censorship & McCarthyism.

Movement caught on. One of the 5, Bernard Bray, interviewed by ZEP ➡️: zinnedproject.org/materials/the-… Photo of man with white beard and green beret, red brick wal
Bernard Bray, who teaches at @TalladegaColleg, said he was inspired to take action based on Baptist Fellowship youth group discussions of burning social issues; influences of seminarian who was jailed for refusal to participate in WWII; & religious convictions of his parents.
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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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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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#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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