On Monday, September 12, 2022, Alaina Roberts will introduce the Reconstruction era connections between Black freedom and Native American citizenship in the context of westward expansion onto Native land. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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The free workshop will include an opportunity to examine the report findings for South Carolina, learn about Hastings Gantt (who donated the land for the Penn School), and discuss approaches to teaching Reconstruction with fellow people's history teachers in the state.
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On February 21, 2022, historian Martha S. Jones spoke about the role of Black women in the long and ongoing fight for voting rights. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Thousands of teachers from across the United States have signed a pledge not to lie to their students.
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Maeve Conran of Free Speech TV's "Just Solutions" interviewed Jesse Hagopian about our new national report Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction.
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Our new national report, Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction,includes a teachable vignette from a freedman navigating the era of emancipation in Mississippi.
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In the first month of his administration, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has unveiled a host of directives to ban “inherently divisive concepts” from the state’s classrooms. Youngkin’s initiatives join a well-orchestrated right-wing assault on truthful teaching about race.
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Georgia Educators, Students, and Community Members, please sign this petition that will be delivered to state legislators.
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Students are invited to conduct research to complete the online database of Congress members who enslaved people -- and one of the researchers is available as a guest speaker.
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We want to hear about your feedback about use of our lessons on Reconstruction. In appreciation for your time, we will send you a free copy of Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes.
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People’s history is for all ages. Here, we feature some of our favorite age-appropriate materials and opportunities for younger students.
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We invite you to use the power of your voice to protect teachers and ensure that our children learn the truth about history so that they can shape a more just future.
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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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We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events.
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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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The Zinn Education Project produced a national report on the teaching of the Reconstruction era. The report examines state standards, course requirements, frameworks, and support for teachers in each state. It also includes stories about creative efforts by districts and/or individual teachers in each state to teach outside the textbook about Reconstruction.
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Historian Jeanne Theoharis shed light on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance on a range of issues, including his longstanding critique of police brutality. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Although the coronavirus’s threat to the safety of our schools is dire, there is another threat that should not be ignored. Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking educators’ most basic responsibility — to teach young people accurately and truthfully.
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North Dakota passed a law to ban teaching "that racism is systemically embedded in American society and the American legal system to facilitate racial inequality." Instead, teachers must say that "racism is merely the product of learned individual bias or prejudice."
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We offer this #TeachTruthSyllabus as a gesture of defiance and education. The Right would be happy to keep the conversation at the level of obfuscation, divorced from reality and history. We, on the other hand, want to talk about the truth — the truth about our past and present, the truth about our classrooms and curricula.
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Quotes about the Reconstruction era and why it should be taught.
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Lawmakers in 18 states have enacted 30 new laws this year that will make it harder to vote. Help us reach more teachers with people's history lessons on voting rights in 2022.
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In 2021, the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) supported and defended the right to teach truthfully about U.S. history. Please help us continue this essential work and expand our reach in 2022, the 100th anniversary year of Howard Zinn (born 1922).
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To continue to support educators with free people’s history resources we need your help. The Right has a well-funded campaign to suppress the truth. Your donation defends teachers who #TeachTruth.
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