Jesse Hagopian’s article “How you can help Black Lives Matter at School” and the Zinn Education Project offer ways educators, parents, students, and anti-racist organizers can support the Year of Purpose and support Black students.
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Prof. Charles M. Payne led a class about post-WWII organizers for voting rights in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Find resources to teach about Indigenous Peoples' Day and to help students learn the real history of Christopher Columbus.
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Interactive classes about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the largest Superfund toxic waste site in the Western Hemisphere.
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Find lessons to teach current issues such as the climate crisis, voter suppression, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and more.
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When young people read about this country’s history of injustice, and about the people who have risen up to oppose oppression, they are inspired to do the same thing. Become a monthly donor and sustain the teaching of people’s history for the long haul.
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Educators speak out and support the teaching of people's history.
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Seattle Mariners outfielder Braden Bishop auctioned an autographed copy of his Jackie Robinson Day bat to benefit the Zinn Education Project's Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign.
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Twitter responded to the attacks on the Zinn Education Project and Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States at the White House Conference on American History.
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In this three-minute clip, Zinn counters Trump’s assertion that teaching people’s history tries “to make students ashamed of their own history.” To the contrary. Watch and share.
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Learn more about the Zinn Education Project campaigns to bring people’s history — not the president's state propaganda — to young people across the country.
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Suggestions for teaching Zinn Education Project people's history lessons remotely in both synchronous and asynchronous classrooms.
Article. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. 2020
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Here are resources to help students probe the roots of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the impact of the Vietnam War — which the Vietnamese rightly call “The American War” — and resistance to the war.
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Teachers: Share your remote teaching story and receive a free copy of the New York Times' 1619 Project issue.
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The Zinn Education Project has received funding from a generous group of donors to support 25 Teaching for Black Lives Teacher Study Groups this school year.
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While teaching remotely in the midst of a pandemic, we remain committed to building up and supporting our community of people's history teachers across the country.
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Survey for Washington teachers about the teaching of Black history in the state.
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Tell the Zinn Education Project what lesson you used, why you chose it, how your students reacted, and why you would recommend it, and we will send you this essential guide from Rethinking Schools.
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Updates and opportunities this summer, including webinars and a book giveaway, plus news about our Instagram milestone.
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We offer a list of people's history lessons to accompany chapters in Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi.
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The Zinn Education Project will send free copies of Lawrence Goldstone's new book to educators who submit a story about how they taught one or more lessons in our unit on the struggle for voting rights.
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Students deserve a curriculum that helps them make sense of this moment, and that explores the connections between crises.
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The Journal of the Civil War Era is offering two free opportunities to learn in the summer 2020: a series of four webinars and open access to a selection of articles on from their special issue on race, politics, and justice.
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In July 2020, the Zinn Education Project's Instagram reached and exceeded 100,000 followers.
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On July 10, the weekly People’s Historians Online mini-class featured a conversation between historian Manisha Sinha and high school teacher Adam Sanchez about the abolition movement and Reconstruction.
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