Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Kelli Miller | Asheville, NC
Lauren Maples | Austin, TX
So many adults do not know the lessons of the Reconstruction era. Let's learn from our past so we can improve our future.
Megan Good | Baltimore, MD
VERNELLIA RANDALL | Orlando, FL
James McMurtry | Tallahassee, FL
We have supported the fallacy that ending slavery was equivalent to ending racism. To this day, racists use emancipation as a playing field leveler as if our debt to black Americans has been paid.
Eric Wrencher | Greensboro , NC
I am signing this petition because students' understanding of this history is one piece of part of what is needed to combat entrenched white supremacy in schools and in this country. Students will have a the knowledge to connect their present with the accurate history of the United States of America. Knowledge is not all that is needed, but it is definitely a critical part to move forward and not forget.
Sunny Galbraith | Sebastopol, CA
Jenna Keirns | Littleton, CO
Reconstruction is essential to understanding current racial issues as well as political divides and the use of government to undermine groups of people. Reconstruction shaped what we see in the US today
JoAnn Conrad | Berkeley, CA
Anna Shields | Des Moines, IA
Robin Kelley | Beverly Hills, CA
Roger Leisner | Augusta, ME
A period of massive change and upheaval in American History. Another chance for America to live up to its ideals and promises.
Pamela Kittelson | Eugene, OR
Julia Maycock | Annapolis , MD
Because racism endures. And this must change.
Andrew Ginsberg | Evanston, IL
It is too often glossed over.Students don't realize that the imposition of Jim Crow wasn't inevitable.The similarity between the black freedom struggle then and now is important.It has been argued that the rise in white supremacy currently is a backlash to a modern Reconstruction project. Those parallels are essential to explore and understand.
Rebecca Park | Brooklyn, NY
Devin Hess | Oakland, CA
Michelle Mazzeo | Oakland, CA
Heidi Thayer | Boston, MA
Understanding the past gives us necessary context for both understanding and being active participants in the present.
Dyan Watson | Portland, OR
Mandolyn Ludlum | Oakland, CA
T L | Chicago, IL
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine | Riverside, CA
Anthony Giarratano | Fort Lauderdale, FL
I hope that this method of teaching will include the seminal effort of Dr W. E. B. DuBois!God bless the planet!!
Christopher Martell | Dorchester, MA
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