The Players Coalition, founded by former NFL players Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins, made a donation to the Teaching for Black Lives campaign.
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Historian Jeanne Theoharis shared stories about Rosa Parks’ lifetime of activism and discussed the new documentary about Parks, which is based off of a biography of Parks written by Theoharis. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Students in a New Jersey classroom designed commemorations of people's history sites.
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Historian Dayo Gore shared stories about Black women radicals who were active in revolutionary struggle during the Red Scare. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Help us bring the young readers edition of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks to more classrooms.
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Roslyn Pope, author of An Appeal for Human Rights in 1960, died on January 19, 2023 at the age of 84.
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For two years, new education standards for history and social science classes have been drafted in a public process. As those new standards come up for formal adoption, the Virginia Department of Education under Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed their own revisions, in consultation with Hillsdale College, proponents of the right wing 1776 Curriculum.
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Since April, 13,000 copies of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the young readers’ edition of a book by acclaimed historian Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert, have been shipped to teachers requesting copies to pair with their history or language arts curriculum.
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Students in the Blue Ridge Mountains learned the rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks that is too often left out of textbooks and stories about her life.
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An English teacher introduces the Poetry of Defiance lesson as his students read Kindred by Octavia Butler.
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The Zinn Education Project hosted an interactive panel discussion on teaching Reconstruction at the American Historical Association annual meeting in Philadelphia.
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Resources about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., beyond the traditional narrative.
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Open letter from Civil Rights Movement veterans in support of teachers who pledge to teach the truth despite the new wave of teacher-intimidation and thought-suppression laws.
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H-PAD is mobilizing its member historians to oppose the right-wing’s lies and distortions about what is and what is not being taught in schools and to stand up for educational freedom.
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An open letter signed by more than 240 prominent scholars of U.S. history urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era.
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Based on the bestselling biography by Jeanne Theoharis and executive produced by award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien, the 2022 documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks depicts Rosa Parks' life-long dedication to justice.
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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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We look forward to the 2023 National Coalition for the Social Studies conference in Nashville.
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Check out our plans to bring people's history to more classrooms in 2023.
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Lawmakers continue to enact laws that will make it harder to vote. Help us reach more teachers with people's history lessons on voting rights in 2023.
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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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Teacher stories about using lessons from the Zinn Education Project.
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People’s history was made in Georgia on December 6 when Sen. Raphael Warnock was re-elected to the U.S. Senate thanks to grassroots organizing efforts. Share your stories of teaching people’s history lessons and the resistance you may face in doing so.
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