Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Angela Gladstone | Unadilla Twp, MI
Judy Walsh-Mellett | Mt Rainier, MD
Injustice will continue to cause harm until it is brought to the light. We do not have to be afraid of truth. Reconciliation is only possible when truth is told.
Heather Carver | Portland, OR
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
Kirsten Ivey-Colson | Washington, DC
Anna Darby | New Mills, GB
Education is the foundation for change.
Katherine Ramos Gil | Laguna Niguel, CA
I believe that it is important to truly learn about all their history. I came to college to learn about things that I was not taught in Highschool. I felt disappointed that I got to learn about this only until I got to college.
Marcela Rojas | Pasadena, CA
I am a college professor and I want have the freedom to use Critical Race Truth in my classroom.
Zil Patel | Baltimore, MD
As a former student of public schools, I feel so many elements of US History were taught under false pretenses. This is not fair to American children. More honest and factual resources are needed if our kids are to fix the problems generations before them have created.
Beatriz Mitrzyk | Northville, MI
We need to teach our country's history so we understand our country's present.
Heather Rooney | Arvada, CO
The recent trend of book banning and curriculum bans in the United States frightens me. Citizens deserve for their children to be taught the truth, not a whitewashed version of it. We can never be a fully democratic society if certain truths are suppressed, and without reckoning the harm white people have caused over the centuries.
Nancy Gallavan | Carlsbad, CA
United States history must include the history of ALL of US. K-16+ teaching, learning, and schooling must be truthful, transparent, and trusted in ways that are cognitively, socially, and emotionally, i.e., developmentally appropriate. All people living in the US must be granted their voice and their choice in order to comprehend the content and context; connect with people, places, and perspectives; co-construct, create, and contribute new knowledge and new experiences situated in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. NO ONE should control the narrative, especially the nuances, via distracting messages and disallowing membership.
Jennifer Collins | Austin, TX
It is time to shout the TRUTH.
Shifra Teitelbaum | Culver City, CA
I believe we can be better, stronger people if we can grapple with complex, often painful realities. It is problematic to shut down students' (people's) exposure to nuanced history and pretend that everything America does and has done is right and pure and just. This creates a rigid and defensive world where complexifying or challenging that narrative is treasonous. I want students (people) who are critical thinkers, who can ask hard questions, can grapple with and incorporate new ideas and perspectives and can take action to make the world just for more people.
Rosemary Furst | Minneapolis, MN
Teaching the truth, the facts, of the history is critical to understanding who we are today.
Faith Therrien | Fall River, MA
James Valentine | Surprise, AZ
Khalifa Khaliq MN
Leah Graniela-Loving | Oakland, CA
Teaching Reconstruction is long overdue. ALL youth need to know about the amazing gains made by African Americans during this time as well as the systematic efforts to suppress and destroy the progress. This backlash is very relevant to what is happening right now!
Sheila Cox | Eatontown, NJ
I would like the reconstruction era after the civil war of the this country USA taught in all schools
Josh Kayne | Aromas, CA
Our systems will be better apt to create affirming spaces to students when accurate history is taught.
Linda Stringer | Fort Worth, TX
All history matters
Leslie Gleaves | Springville, UT
It’s never been more important for adults and students alike to participate in learning the lessons of the Reconstruction era so that we can apply them to the challenges we face today.
Taylor Nisley | South Bend, IN
True history is important and must be learned in its entirety.
Annie Egan-Robertson | Madison, WI
Devaki Douillard | Longmont, CO
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