Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 5 pages.
Activity for students to write from the point of view of one of the women featured in the film Union Maids.
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Profile. By Gabriel Thompson. 2013.
Introduction to little-known but influential labor organizer Fred Ross (1910-1992), who trained many activists of note including Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez.
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Protesters from the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offices in Washington, D.C. for six days.
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Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian. Rethinking Schools. 33 pages.
A mixer lesson introduces students to the pivotal history of the Black Panthers.
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Film. Directed by Lucy Massie Phenix and Catherine Murphy. 2019. 9 minutes.
Documentary about Citizenship Schools.
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The first African Liberation Day drew some 60,000 demonstrators in cities across the United States and Canada, including one on the National Mall in Washington D. C.
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In April 1970, millions of people gathered around the country in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history to celebrate the first Earth Day and demand action be taken on a variety of environmental issues.
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The United States celebrated its first national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, three years after the holiday was signed into law and eighteen years after the fight for a King holiday began.
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The Harlem Park Three — Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, and Ransom Watkins — spent decades imprisoned on a wrongful conviction before gaining their freedom in 2019.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jason Stanley. 2026. 272 pages.
A global call to action for those who wish to preserve democracy — in the United States and abroad — before it is too late.
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Protests erupted across India as the government deregulated Indian agriculture, endangering the livelihoods of farmers by commercializing an industry that employs over half the population.
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Activist Mike Africa Jr. and scholar Dr. Krystal Strong joined Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian to discuss the story of the MOVE organization, repairing histories of state violence, and the “On a MOVE” curriculum project in Philadelphia. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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At this Teach Truth Prep Session, participants will hear from the growing chorus of diverse voices speaking out to defend students’ freedom to learn and educators’ freedom to teach.
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We offer lessons, films, and this day in people’s history entries to teach about the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement.
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Digital collection. This archive increases the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
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Book — Non-fiction. By David Lester and Marcus Rediker, and edited by Paul Buhle. 2026. 136 pages.
graphic history of how enslaved Africans on board the Amistad rebelled and captured the slave ship in 1839, challenging a whitewashed version of history and putting the Africans back at the center of their own freedom story.
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Environmental and animal rights political prisoner Marius Mason was released from federal prison after serving seventeen years for acts of property damage carried out in defense of the planet.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jaz Brisack. 2026. 320 pages.
Highlighting the Starbucks and Tesla unionization efforts, this book tells the broader story of the new, nationwide labor movement unfolding in our era of political and social unrest.
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