Garrett Felber and abolitionist organizer Stevie Wilson talk about the growth of the carceral state and resistance movements.
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Pat Michelsen and Eric Dean generously offered to match donations up to $15,000 in support of the Zinn Education Project Teach Reconstruction campaign.
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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 180 prominent scholars of U.S. history urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era.
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An open letter to educators with resources to "learn or unlearn Asian American history, to teach about the oppression from white supremacy, and to teach about the movements, activists, and solidarity across movements."
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Dr. Tera W. Hunter was in conversation with Jeanne Theoharis about the historical context for the election victory in Georgia and to share insights from her research into freed women's lives, including the striking washerwomen of Atlanta.
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Beginning in late March 2020, the Zinn Education Project, in collaboration with Dr. Theoharis and dozens of scholars and activists, launched online classes for educators with people’s historians.
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Please sign the petition to school boards and join the more than 170 noted scholars of U.S. history who have signed an open letter urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era.
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In an International Women's Day online class, part of the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign, the authors of A Black Women's History of the United States shared 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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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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