Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Billy Rutherford | Pittsburgh, PA
Doris Mutegi | Aurora, CO
It's time the lies and make believes and wishful thinking ends and the truth be told without this excuse thing of saying AHH! THAT'S A SENSITIVE TOPIC! THE HOLOCOST IS NOT SENSITIVE TOPIC BUT TELLING THE STORY OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF AFRICANS WHO DIED IN THEIR OWN MOTHER LAND BEING WHIPPED AND KILLED BECAUSE THE WERE REFUSING TO LEAVE THEIR FAMILIES ANDTHOSE WHO DIED IN THE SEA EITHER BY THROWING THEMSELVES OR BEING THROWN AND THOSE WHO DIED IN UNITED STATES AND ARE STILL DYING HERE TODAY AND ALL OVER THE WORLD ESPECIALY IN MIDDLE EAST AND ASIAN COUNTRIES JUST BECAUSE OF THE COLOUR OF THEIR SKIN. THEY CAN'T CONTINUE BURRYING OUR HISTORY. WE HAVE TO STUDY IT AND LIVE IT FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
Laura Gomez | Harlingen, TX
Mary Delgado | Milwaukee, WI
It is an important way for students to understand how Blacks came forward in education, business, and politics in the beginning of Reconstruction to the dismay of their white southerners. It showed the resiliency and determination of Blacks to create the America the founding documents pronounced - “all men are created equal”.
Evelyn King | Pittsburgh, PA
Tracey Barrett | Durham, NC
Therese Kelleghan | Chicago, IL
Joanna Tanner | Columbia, MD
Studying this era is critical in understanding why the end of the Civil War did not magically bring about racial harmony in our country.
Barbara Keller | Lopez Island, WA
Michael Weber | Baltimore, MD
Jackie Spurlock | Portland, OR
Jessica Papalia | Oakland, CA
William Brandon | Charlotte, NC
Bernard Ashe | Delmar, NY
This period of American history is forms the subtext of today’s racial conflicts. An understanding of this period of our past is a prelude to the present.
Alan Flagg | Los Angeles, CA
Liz Murray | Montmorency, AU
It is critical that history doesn't skip over Reconstruction as without this understanding it is assumed that the Civil War was won by the north and the "slaves were all freed". It is a messy topic because people want the "good" feeling of the Civil War "victory" as they do with the Civil Rights movements in the 60s without the racialized ramifications of these moments in history.
Dana Orr | Milwaukee, WI
We must include all of our history, no matter how difficult or dark. We must tell the truth. A house divided can not stand.
Mary Hellman | Los Gatos, CA
Erin L Smith | Hopkins, MN
Carolyn Yale | Oakland, CA
When I was in school, half a century ago, the only instruction about the Civil War was battles that ended with the surrender of the South, triumph of the North: Virtually nothing about the aftermath -- the legal, economic and social changes post Civil. I think this era, and subsequent reactions/conflicts that bled into the 20th century.
Nadine Argott-Northam | Lawrenceville, GA
Reconstruction was much more than a blip in American history. It's extensive historical proof of the consequences of slavery on African Americans, and was the foundation of modern African American civilizations. It set infinite precedents for how our country interacts with the subject of race came to be.
Laura Bray | Raleigh, NC
Jessica Larson | Edgemere, MD
Our students need actual history, as is. We no longer need to cherry pick our curriculum, we are smart enough and our future leaders are smart enough to learn U.S. history as it actually happened. Hopefully they will be wiser than we are today, provided more information.
Ryan Wozniak | Elmont, NY
I am a NYCDOE High School Social Studies teacher and strongly believe our students need to have their curriculum decolonized. Not a teacher like me using resources like ZEP and so many other resources to be culturally responsive but that it is a mandate that classes teach students about their history and their struggle and their strength and beauty not just a white centered, eurocentric curriculum. 1619. Assata. Free Mumia. Abolition Now!
Paul Barker | Junction City, OR
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