Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Diana Aviles | Baton Rouge, LA
For all the reasons already stated! We have been denied of our natural history and it’s time everyone understands it!
Pam Musho | Newport, RI
Ritu Radhakrishnan | Oswego, NY
Anthony Pagan | Union City, CA
Kathy Vogel | Grand Rapids, MI
tina de la fe | Lansing, MI
We are on the verge of another great missed opportunity. We must learn about empowering and repairing, vs marginalizing and oppressing!
Anna Owens | Cincinnati, OH
There is a reason that this history is actively suppressed and under taught. The only way to freedom is through understanding each tool of oppression that is used to sustain White Supremacy.
Nikki Marchmon-Boykin | Kent, OH
Teaching the Reconstruction Era will give students a full and true perspective on what happened in the country, particularly to African Americans, after the Civil War. In addition, this discussion gives teachers the ability to connect history to current events/modern occurrences such as mass incarceration and police brutality.
LaChardra McBride | Humble, TX
Jordan Gerdes | Redmond , OR
The myths of lost cause and states rights do nothing for our students but bolster white supremacist ideals beneath the surface for future generations. In order to resist, it’s important to deconstruct mythology and teach truth.
Alexandra Haridopolos | New York, NY
Esperanza Romero | Shafter, CA
Joan Mccalmont | Arlington, MA
Only when we start teaching truth will things change in our society and in our country. We must be honest about our past no matter how ugly, and it starts with education in our schools.
Dr. Anthony B. Mitchell | Mckeesport, PA
The Reconstruction Era is a period of great African American achievement in areas of social uplift, education, politics, and economic development. It shows how African Americans strived to make a better world for themselves and future generations prior to the emergence of "Jim Crow" and the 100 years of attack on Black lives and Black communities.
Holly Schroeder | Somerville, MA
It is important to learn about because it is fundamental to understanding how our system works today and why white privilege is a thing.
Anonymous | El Paso, TX
Alden Dearborn | Bellmead, TX
Lou Ann Horstman | Springfield, OH
Jennifer Wakefield | Charleston, SC
Right now, Reconstruction is just a blurb in SC teaching standards. The current US History course should be a two year course, the Foundations (Colonization - WWI) and the Modern Era (Interwar Period - 9/11). In doing so, much more focus could be spent on topics like reconstruction, which has so many important lessons for today's students.
Katherine McMillan | New York, NY
Aubrey Monaco | Buffalo, NY
Sharon Kim | Buena Park, CA
David Nanninga | Fort Wayne, IN
Reconstruction is incredibly important to teach because it destroys the idea that history is ever progressing in terms of "things getting better as time goes on." That idea allows for everyone to be complacent in our everyday lives, but in reconstruction we see an opportunity where things got better, where freed African-Americans were given in mass land to farm, real estate, an opportunity to lift themselves into prosperity (Special Field order 15), and less than 6 months later it's taken away from them by the U.S. Gov. -Things got better, then got incredibly worse-that is a crucial lesson to teach and for all Americans to know.
Sarah Judson | Asheville, NC
Diana Kamin | New York, NY
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