We are thrilled to announce our second class of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney fellows for the 2024–2026 school years. The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for two years.

Historian John Avery Dittmer (October 30, 1939 – July 19, 2024) was the author of key texts on SNCC and grassroots organizing in Mississippi.

Join the SNCC Legacy Project at an in-person or virtual event to learn more about SNCC’s organizing work from SNCC veterans and humanities scholars and to explore connections to your life and community.

Check out this list of frequently downloaded lessons from the Zinn Education Project website during the 2023–2024 school year.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a voting rights campaign with lessons for today.

In this election year, educators are hosting more than 170 #TeachTruth events to challenge the media silence and encourage everyone to defend the freedom to learn. Here are descriptions and photos from some of the events.

Children’s future depends on what they learn today.

On June 4, the Zinn Education Project hosted a Press Call about the 4th Annual National Teach Truth Day of Action.

In this election year, educators and allies are planning creative Teach Truth Day of Action events all over the country.

Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò joined Cierra Kaler-Jones and Jesse Hagopian to discuss his book, Reconsidering Reparations. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Throughout U.S. history, young people have protested to demand justice in the United States and around the world. Each time, they face violence from police and vilification by the corporate media.

Wear Teach Banned History buttons to prompt conversations everywhere about the need to actively oppose book bans, teach truthfully, and defend LGBTQ+ rights.

Historian Julius B. Fleming Jr. joined educator Jessica Rucker to discuss his book, Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

For this 4th annual Teach Truth Day of Action, we are offering a pop-up display so event hosts can set up an information table at a public space such as a bookstore, library, or farmers' market.

Inspirational Ohio organizer and political leader C. J. Prentiss died on April 2, 2024.

On the four-year anniversary of the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, we offer resources for teaching about health and healthcare.

Mississippi-born SNCC veteran and lifelong activist Dorie Ladner died on March 11, in Washington, D.C.

We owe it to our students — and to the people of Gaza — to explore in our classrooms the history of violence that continues in Palestine-Israel. Check out the new mixer/mystery activity on Zionism, anti-Zionism, peasant resistance, the Great War, the British Mandate, and find more teaching resources on Palestine-Israel.

The Zinn Education Project offers free lessons for these fabulous books. Let us know how you use any of the lessons and we’ll send you a people’s history book in appreciation.

Award-winning musicologist and music historian Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. discussed his book Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present as part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

On this anniversary of Tinker v. Des Moines, plaintiff Mary Beth Tinker speaks to the need for freedom of speech for students and teachers about Palestine.