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Bryan Stevenson discussed his book, Just Mercy, the Legacy Museum, the history of racial terror in the United States, and the attacks on teaching honestly about U.S. history. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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We were overwhelmed by the support on Giving Tuesday for the Zinn Education Project. Not only did people step up with donations, they also shared moving dedications and comments.
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All donations on Giving Tuesday will be matched up to $10,000 thanks to the generous support of Dave Colapinto who was Howard Zinn’s student at Boston University and currently works to defend whistleblowers.
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A new lesson offers dozens of primary source documents to help students explore the Reconstruction era.
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Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking educators’ most basic responsibility — to teach young people accurately and truthfully. Officials in at least 42 states have sought — and in many cases succeeded — to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events.
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People's historian Staughton Lynd died on Nov. 17 after an extraordinary life as a conscientious objector, peace activist and civil rights activist, tax resister, professor, author, and lawyer.
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As voters navigate waves of voter suppression during the midterm elections, here are lessons, books, and other resources for teaching about the struggle for voting rights.
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Matt Delmont shared stories from his new book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Listen to the audiograms of people's history scholars from the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle monthly online classes.
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Author Ashley Farmer was in conversation with Cierra Kaler-Jones about Queen Mother Audley Moore (1898–1997), one of the most influential activists and thinkers of the 20th century. 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 year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth on August 24, 1922, in Brooklyn. Although Howard died in 2010, his work continues to inform and inspire educators around the world.
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Most state standards and textbooks frame Reconstruction as a Southern story, but grassroots struggles for justice met resistance in the North and to the west. That is why one of the recommendations in our report, Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle is to “Emphasize the significance of Reconstruction throughout the United States.”
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The SNCC Legacy Project launched a new digital platform featuring videos, music, stories, reports, bios, photos, interviews, panels, and other materials of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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Recommended classroom resources, including lessons, books, articles, films, and more for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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The Zinn Education Project will have a booth in the exhibit area and we are offering a number of workshops at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Philadelphia from December 2–4, 2022.
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In commemoration of Howard Zinn’s 100th birthday, the Baltimore-based Taharka Brothers released a “Power of the People” ice cream flavor.
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Historian Vincent Harding shared memories of Howard Zinn at the SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina in April 2010.
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On this Constitution Day, let’s commit ourselves to teach the truth. Let’s look deeply and critically at how this document may have offered a republican form of government for some, but denied humanity to others, and contributed to the system of white supremacy we still need to dismantle.
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The Howard Zinn Centennial week of activities launched with a teacher workshop on the Red Scare since the same tactics are being used today to thwart the teaching of people's history. Teachers from around the country were introduced to the Zinn Education Project mixer lesson about the Red Scare.
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Alaina Roberts discussed 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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Resources for teaching about the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi and its connections to the history of white supremacy and the global climate crisis.
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Thanks to a donation of books from the author the Zinn Education Project is offering 2,500 hardback copies of Matthew Delmont's book on African Americans during WWII to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators, who have a plan for using the text.
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This year during Banned Books Week 2022 (Sept. 18-24), not only are books being banned, but also the right to teach about racism and LGBTQI identity — essentially placing thousands more titles off limits. The official lists of banned books, while useful, are a drop in the bucket.
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The Zinn Education Project has produced a series of lessons and a collection of discussion questions for How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith to help teachers introduce the central role of slavery in U.S. history classes across the country.
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