In an International Women's Day online class, the authors of "A Black Women's History of the United States" will share stories and insights from their book.
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North Carolina teachers are invited to attend an interactive, introductory workshop on the Zinn Education Project.
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Thank you to athletes Shaquill and Shaquem Griffin, and the artist Keegan Hall, whose signed prints of his piece "Griffin Brothers" will benefit our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign.
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Extreme weather events like those that plunged huge swathes of the United States into freezing temperatures, darkness, danger, and fear in Feb. 2021 are becoming increasingly common.
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Thank you for signing the petition to school boards to increase the amount of time and resources devoted to the Reconstruction era.
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COINTELPRO and the Black Panther Party are back in the headlines. Let’s also make sure to teach this critical history in our classrooms.
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The Zinn Education Project is producing a national report on the teaching of the Reconstruction era. The report will examine state standards, course requirements, frameworks, and support for teachers in each state. It will also include stories about creative efforts by districts and/or individual teachers in each state to teach outside the textbook about Reconstruction.
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In January of 2021, two bills are on the table in Arkansas to restrict teaching about race, social class, solidarity, and the 1619 Project.
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Dr. Martin Luther King describes the critical importance of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction to "restore to light the most luminous achievements" of the Reconstruction era.
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Resources for students and educators from a class about Julian Bond and the long history of the Southern voting rights struggle, told through first-person accounts.
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How to contextualize and frame the two major political events of Jan. 6, 2021: An historic grassroots organizing victory in Georgia and an attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol.
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Released on Jan. 13, 2021, an open letter from scholars of U.S. history, urging school districts to devote more time and resources to the teaching of the Reconstruction era in middle and high school U.S. history and civics courses.
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The Zinn Education Project is releasing an open letter signed by more than 170 prominent scholars of U.S. history urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era.
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Online classes for educators on the teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.
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On January 11, 2021, to celebrate the launch of a new book, Jeanne Theoharis spoke about Rosa Parks’ activism prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, her trip to the Highlander Folk School, and the decades she dedicated to challenging racism in the North.
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Here are various ways that everyone can support and advocate for the teaching of people's history.
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U.S. history reveals both the roots of our cruel status quo and its possible antidote. Young people deserve an education that helps them understand how and why we are in this wretched mess, but never leaves them hopeless.
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Here is a reason to look forward to 2021 — new people's history books.
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Generous donors made it possible for us to send people's history books and lessons to teachers in Mississippi, to counter the "Patriotic Education Fund."
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Tom Lesser is a civil and human rights lawyer and donates to the Zinn Education Project every year.
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On Thursday, Sept. 17, at the White House Conference on American History, right-wing historians took aim at the Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, and the New York Times 1619 Project.
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In the fall of 2020, we launched 28 Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups across the United States.
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These lessons teach students the history of the Black freedom struggle — from resistance to enslavement to redlining to the ongoing fight for voting rights and reparations — in the United States.
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In response to the governor's proposed "Patriotic Education Fund," we ask for your help to provide people's history books and lessons to Mississippi middle and high school teachers and librarians.
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We work around the clock to provide resources to teachers and students in the COVID-19 pandemic. We need your help to continue this work in 2021.
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