#tdih 1973: Charges against whistleblowers Ellsberg & Russo dismissed in Pentagon Papers trial.

The top secret in the papers?: The HISTORY and role of U.S. in Vietnam War.

People's history teachers are whistleblowers, every day! #TeachOutsideTextbook ⬇️
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Right wing twists Dr. King's words to pass laws against teaching people's history, incl. King's radical activsm, in the South AND North.

Here are resources to #TeachOutsideTextbook about King & overall CRM: zinnedproject.org/news/mlk-jr-be…
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Can teachers in Georgia & many other states with laws again teaching 'divisive concepts' teach about this speech by Dr. King?

The laws are designed to have a chilling effect, placing teachers & districts at risk when they #TeachOutsideTextbook .

Read: zinnedproject.org/news/teach-tru…

#tdih 1848 in Washington, D.C. 77 enslaved people (adults & children) made a brave, carefully planned escape on the Pearl schooner from slavery.

Tragically, they were apprehended & faced brutal consequences. #TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth ⬇️🧵
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#tdih 1911, Alabama Banner Mine explosion killed 128 men, almost all African American prisoners of the state.

Many serving time for misdemeanors — often on trumped up charges to meet state quotas for convict labor. #TeachOutsideTextbook ⬇️🧵
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We recommend the documentary 'Sir! No Sir!' about the extensive role soldiers and veterans played in the anti-Vietnam War movement. ⬇️ #TeachOutsideTextbook
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Reparations is not in most textbooks, yet it is vital to teach about long history of the demands, roots of inequality today, and to explore reparative policies (recognizing magnitude of theft & harm.)

Lesson ⬇️for grade 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook
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When teaching Memphis Massacre, start with stories of the freedpeople who built schools, churches, and homes.

#TeachOutsideTextbook about full history of Reconstruction.

One key resources is 'Seizing Freedom' podcast by KEW

See ⬇️
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Check out this online 'learn as you go' hidden history quiz on the March on Washington. #MOW60 #TeachOutsideTextbook

Lots of links to articles, podcasts, films, books, and archives to learn more. ⬇️
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#tdih 1968 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while in Memphis to support the striking sanitation workers.

This was one year to the day after his speech at Riverside Church in NY against the U.S. war in Vietnam. #TeachOutsideTextbook ⬇️
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Textbooks say little of this FBI role in U.S. history, but it’s essential background for today.

HS teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote a lesson using COINTELPRO primary docs. Students are gripped by docs.

Free ⬇️ for grades 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook
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This #July4thWeekend , learn some U.S. history that some would like to see buried.

Defend the right to #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/peop…

We recommend biography below, 'Passenger on the Pearl,' for young readers (middle school+) about teenager Emily Edmonson, one of 77 people who bravely attempted to escape slavery in Washington, D.C. on the Pearl schooner. #otd 1848 #TeachOutsideTextbook
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We offer a free lesson ⬇️to help students examine social forces that influenced the New Deal -- Unemployed Councils, Bonus Army, & more -- the militant actions of ordinary people whose lives were devastated by the Great Depression. #TeachOutsideTextbook
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Another Zinn Ed Project lesson gets beyond one speech. “The doctrine of white supremacy was [& is] imbedded in every textbook & preached in practically every pulpit. It became a structural part of the culture.” - Martin Luther King Jr. #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/news/mlk-jr-be…

Find resources to #TeachOutsideTextbook about Malcolm X and on the role of the FBI in COINTELPRO at #ZinnEducationProject including the free teaching activity “COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement.” (9)