Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Tamanika Howze | Pittsburgh, PA
Keith Brooks | Brooklyn, NY
Students as well as the general population need to understand the roots of today's crises and the resurgence of white supremacist and fascist attacks on democracy. We'd be living in a different country today if the goals of Reconstruction had been fulfilled and not sabotaged--from the promised 40 acres and a mule to what should have been the crushing of the slave power and white supremacy. "The past is never dead, it''s not even past" as William Faulkner put it.
Rebecca Desalvo | Chicago, IL
Kathryn Armstrong | Jacksonville, AR
Madeline Schleimer | Pasadena, CA
Black lives matter African American history is American history.A quilt with holes needs repair.
Katharine Waitt | Sebec, ME
We need to learn the history and push for a 3rd reconstruction now
Noa Craft | Lincoln, NE
Regis Reynolds | Hillsboro, OR
If a person does not read about Reconstruction, they have no understanding of why America is the way it is. I decided at about the age of sixty that there was a void in my knowledge of that era. I then read several books on the subject all the while amazed about my lack of education. Americans would be much more tolerant of others if Reconstruction was taught in schools.
Matthew Payan | Yorba Linda, CA
It is not possible to understand Modern US History and all of the issues that come with it, without a strong foundation in the history of Reconstruction. It lays the groundwork for everything that students are learning about and acts as an origin story for many of the things students learn about in US History and Civics. The deliberate attempts to erase Reconstruction from our historical narrative confuses students and confounds educators who have to make this jump from our nations founding to modern US History with little explanation for the most important steps in the middle. It would be like teaching law without talking about the 14th amendment. It makes no sense. Please bring Reconstruction back to our classrooms.
Christina Moodie | Tucson, AZ
Because it has everything to do with African Americans attitudes in the present. Reconstruction aftermath is within a family's recent personal history. It could be someone's great grandfather who suffered Reconstruction's violence and injustices. This great grandfather's stories would still be in a contemporary's history through grandpa or grandma. It only adds to a gap in understanding the anger and fear black people feel if this type of history is unknown by white people.
Dena Stanley | Hillsborough, NC
Ryan Dearinger | La Grande, OR
Andrea Boyack | Topeka, KS
Adam Cooper | New York, NY
Monroe Head | New York, NY
Rachael Vidal | Cedar Park, TX
Kerah Sandler | Evanston, IL
Josh Rassi | Bozeman, MT
Reconstruction is an absolute essential era in American history. So much of the 20th century and the events of today can be explained by the mix of radical change and the conservative backlash that ensued during this era. The western expansion that occurred during this time is arguably equally important to understanding the modern American West, as well.
Dean Spencer | Belmont, MA
The denial of equal rights and freedom through the use of lies and terror in the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period left damage on countless lives and scars that still distort American life. These same tactics are now being used again, against many of the same targets. If democracy is to survive our young people must understand how the use of power and exclusion of some citizens brings damage to us all.
Bre'Lynn Lombard | Brooklyn, NY
Rachel Dougherty | Staten Island, NY
Sheila Weathers | Las Vegas, NV
Amanda White | Coronado, CA
Elizabeth Madrigal , WA
Phyllis Willett | Berkeley, CA
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