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Lost History Books
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Bibliographic adventurer. 🔎📖📚 Help me find lost books: https://t.co/Wt7qFkcqZs
Dec 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
This is how reconstruction was taught before the civil rights movement. This is from _American History_ by David Saville Muzzey published in 1911. They were almost all like this, despite the long history of objections by the black community. 🧵 Lawrence Reddick in 1934: “The picture presented of the Negro is altogether unfavorable: As a slave he was happy and docile. As a freedman he was shiftless, sometimes vicious, and easily led into corruption. As a freeman his activities have not been worthy of note.”
Nov 28, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
This book is recommended by Moms for Liberty, a group trying to ban books about the civil rights movement. Let’s take a quick peak inside. The main section on slavery is outrageous. 🧵 Colorful textbook cover. Title: The making of America. SubtiSection heading: rebels and runaways. Body of text: The worsBody of text continued: of the loss of the slave but even mo I am genuinely speechless.
Oct 2, 2021 • 30 tweets • 13 min read
1/n - In honor of the final day of banned books week, lets take a look at the history of banning, challenging and censoring social studies textbooks in the US. 🧵 #BannedBooksWeek #BannedBooksWeek2021 2/n - Before we get to books that were outright banned, I'd like to note that people have been complaining about textbooks for a long time. For example, this clipping from 1836 is from the prospectus of a publishing company. Image