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“It is in moments of shared discovery and debate that students stop viewing history as a static past and begin seeing themselves as active agents of social change.” — Kenyon Andrews, MS special education teacher, Las Vegas, Nevada Read testimonials & lesson: www.zinnedproject.org/materials/co...

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“ZEP provides tools to tap right into students’ natural curiosity. Instead of relying on dry, standard textbooks, you access vibrant primary sources, forgotten stories, & diverse voices that get your students leaning in.” — Roy Dalisay, MS LA teacher, Schuyler, NE Donate: zinnedproject.org/donate

“Despite the fact that the Bonus Army was made up of 95 percent veterans, the entire group was labeled ‘Red agitators’ — tantamount to declaring open season on an oppressed group of U.S. citizens. Right on cue, Hoover called out the troops.” 💔#TeachOutsideTextbook #RedScare

“While they may have fought in Europe as a segregated army, the Bonus Army did not invite Jim Crow to this battle. Arriving from all over the country, alone or with wives and children, both Black & white vets huddled together, in what they called ‘Hoovervilles.’” #TeachTruth #Encampments #Occupy

#FridayReport: This week 83 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Oakland, CA; Lake Worth, FL; Shawnee, KS; Tukwila, WA; & many more. #TeachTruth Some reasons why. ⬇️ Donate so we can reach more teachers with free people’s history lessons: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

Today at 7pm ET! Join @rethinkingschools.bsky.social editors & contributors for a teach-in on teaching truthfully about the American Revolution during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Register: pro.gofundme.com/event/americ...

”ZEP does not simply provide lesson plans; it provides the essential tools for people to understand the past for a democratic future.” —Annette Bethel, adult education teacher, Irmo, South Carolina #TeachTruth Support honest people’s history education. Donate today: zinnedproject.org/donate

Summer 1966: local authorities force prisoners to protect Confederate Memorial in Grenada, Miss. #tdih 1966: Local people demanding lawful right to vote attacked by KKK & police. 2020: Homeland Security uses surveillance to protect statues. 2025: Admin. protects Conf. statues & suppresses vote 🧵

Yes! Is there a # we can use to all voice support & teachers can share what they & students have learned from the Smithsonian? Also, House Democrats issued 16-page rebuttal with many clear & strong points. (Although too rosy at end about past presidents.) democrats-cha.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

“History does not refer merely to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us and are unconsciously controlled by it. History is present in all that we do.” — James Baldwin Protect honest history education. Donate: zinnedproject.org/donate

Been watching the World Cup with young people? Keep the conversation going with picture and chapter books about soccer and more sports. Find recommended titles from @teachingchange.bsky.social's Social Justice Books, here: www.socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/sp... (Filter by reading level.)

If you've been as gripped as we have to @rebeccanagle.bsky.social's "First America" podcast & wondering how to teach some of this history, check out the Smithsonian NMAI free educator workshops, "American Revolution: Haudenosaunee Perseverance" on 7/21 & 22. ➡️ americanindian.si.edu/nk360/profes...

#FridayReport: This week 92 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Anchorage, AK; Rochester Hills, MI; the Bronx, NY; Greenville, SC; Milwaukee, WI; & more. #TeachTruth Some reasons why. ⬇️ Help bring more free people’s history lessons to teachers: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

Sailors were ordered to return to work in same conditions that led to the deadly munitions explosion. “This is not 50 men on trial for mutiny. This is Navy on trial for its whole vicious policy towards Negroes.” — Thurgood Marshall They were found guilty, sentenced to federal prison.

“I wasn’t trying to shirk work. But to go back to work under the same conditions, with no improvements, no changes, the same group of officers that we had . . . we thought there was a better alternative.” — Joe Small, Port Chicago explosion survivor. See next post. #TeachTruth

More than 1,000 Arkansas teachers have signed up to access ZEP’s people’s history lessons. Now EO’s and state laws are designed to ban those lessons. Help us defend students’ right to learn truthfully about U.S. history & shape a more just future. Donate today zinnedproject.org/donate/

As a result of public protests (w/SNCC), court was pressured to rule. Determined in April of 1965 that it was a denial of 14th Amendment rights. Ordered Capitol Club to integrate & defendants to pay lawsuit costs. Read: Ozell Sutton via @sncclegacy.bsky.social snccdigital.org/people/ozell...

To avoid accountability (“law & order” party!), Capitol cafeteria incorporated as private, nonprofit club, with token $1 membership fee. Sutton, with NAACP, filed class action against Capitol Club in U.S. District Court. Read Ency. of Arkansas here: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/dese...

Ozell Sutton was told by capitol cafeteria manager, “we don’t serve negras here!” Sutton replied, “That’s all right lady, I don’t eat them either . . . You need to serve me some roast beef!” Read article on protests & 14th Amendment violation by the state ➡️ arktimes.com/news/cover-s...

“As a poet myself, finding the Zinn Education Project’s ‘Poetry of Defiance’ lesson plan was a godsend. It was a perfect bookend to a very heavy unit, culminating our studies with the hope and power that comes with resistance.” —Nat Wyse, middle school social studies teacher, Amston, Connecticut 🧵

Educators need your support to turn classrooms and schools into sites of resistance, justice, joy, and liberation. Donate to keep people’s history lessons free and accessible for educators everywhere: zinnedproject.org/donate

Important 🧵 by Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social on “Draft Riots” history & framing. “Both ‘Draft’ & ‘Riots’ are inaccurate terms if we’re to remember fully what happened in July 1863 — this was the New York Race Massacre.” Read 2023 🧵 here: americanstudier.substack.com/p/twitter-th...

Get ready to teach in new school year about organizing for voting rights with "Putting the MOVEMENT Back Into Civil Rights Teaching" from @teachingchange.bsky.social Lessons, essays, articles, primary docs, art, & poetry. Go beyond a "heroes and holidays" approach. www.civilrightsteaching.org/buy

#FridayReport: This week 103 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Hawthorne, CA; Burbank, IL; Seymour, TN; Pecos, TX; & many more cities. #TeachTruth Some reasons why. ⬇️ Donate so we can reach more teachers with free people’s history lessons: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

“A faithful account of 14th Amendment’s history demonstrates that the Reconstruction Congress supported race-conscious programs . . .” — brief by @rachelshelden.bsky.social, @hngreen.bsky.social, @stephenwest.bsky.social, @katemasur.bsky.social, & more. Read www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20...

“My grandparents were migrant farm workers born in Mexico in the Depression’s wake. ‘Deportations on Trial’ provides an excellent way for me to fill in the gaps between the [standards] and the actual history that students might never know.” — Pablo Giesberg Fierros, history teacher, Chicago 🧵

“Your #tdih is utterly INVALUABLE to us. We teach U.S. history to students who are often missing key context on how white supremacy, xenophobia, & settler colonialism show up in the embodied experience of Americans over & over.” — Arlington, Massachusetts Donate: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

Until recently, only monument to Hamburg Massacre is obelisk (in Calhoun Park!) to white person shot. Says “He exemplified highest ideal of Anglo-Saxon civilization. By his death he assured the supremacy of that ideal.” Site of #BLM protests. See: scpictureproject.org/aiken-county...