Film. Produced by Jill Freidberg. Corrugated Films. 2005. 62 minutes.
Documentary about teachers, parents, and students fighting to defend Mexico's public education system from the impacts of economic globalization.
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Teaching Guide. By Nancy Murray. 2006. 69 pages.
A free, downloadable, student-friendly booklet on the Bill of Rights, available in English and Spanish.
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Film. Haskell Wexler. 2000. 86 minutes.
The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union's triumphant struggle to win better service.
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Film. Directed and produced by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre. 2006. 68 minutes.
The impact of globalization as told through the lives of the women who experience it in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Profile.
Brief profiles of people and events from Asian American and Pacific Islander people's history.
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Profile. Zinn Education Project.
Brief bios of two dozen women of note in the labor movement.
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The Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups each year.
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Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.
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Jesse Hagopian led a conversation with Garrett Felber, Safear Ness, and Stevie Wilson about the prison industrial complex, incarceration, and the history of resistance against that system.
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The Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups each year. Applications are open now for the 2023-2024 school year.
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Selected photos and stories from classrooms across the country about their use of the book and film, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
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On July 17, 2013 the Associated Press (AP) revealed that former Indiana Governor and current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels had tried to ban Howard Zinn’s writing, including A People’s History of the United States, in K-12 public schools.
In a public statement on July 18, Purdue University stood by their president, stating that it is not an issue of censorship because it did not impact higher education, only K-12 public schools.
In other words, academic freedom and censorship do not apply to K-12 teachers and students.
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Mexican-American youth walked out of school to protest racial discrimination in Denver, Colorado.
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Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop were close-knit Mexican American communities that were destroyed in the 1950s to make way for Dodger Stadium.
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The Young Lords were established in Chicago, Illinois in 1968, led by a street activist named Cha Cha Jiménez, who organized the group to fight local gentrification, police brutality, and racism.
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Mexican-American students were barred from attending their local elementary school. The parents took the school district to court.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War. None of the countries that had fought for decades for their freedom were represented at signing of the treaty.
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