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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 4h

The grooming accusations are even more offensive because of the epidemic of school shootings.

Every educator in this country has decided if, when, and how we'd give up our very lives to shield your children. Some of our colleagues around the nation have paid the ultimate price...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 8h

Among countless banned & challenged books is "Fry Bread" by Kevin Noble Maillard.

In support of the #TeachTruth campaign & to raise awareness about the dangers of censorship, every Lush store has a display about the ban.

#LetFreedomReadDay #BannedBooksWeek

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Banned Books Display in Lush Stores - Social Justice Books

On the #TeachTruth Day of Action, every Lush store in the United States installed a display about banned books, featuring the picture book Fry Bread (one of 176 books that were removed from classrooms...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 9h

#tdih 1972 DC prisoners led jail uprising.

Demanded:
-- juveniles be housed separately from adults
-- decent food
-- overcrowding addressed.

At their request, U.S. Rep Shirley Chisholm, D.C. School Board Pres. Marion Barry, & others met with them.

See ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dc...

Oct. 11, 1972: D.C. Jail Uprising

An uprising took place at a Washington, D.C. jail to protest conditions.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

DC!

Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a discussion of his book RECONSIDERING REPARATIONS with Jenice L. View, hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social

Wednesday, October 22nd at
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social

RSVP to attend: www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...

Reconsidering Reparations: Author Talk with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - Teaching for Change

Join us on October 22 at 6:30pm at Busboys and Poets (14th & V) to hear from author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, in conversation with Jenice L. View, on his book, Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice ...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 1d

Octavius V. Catto: teacher, scholar, & civil rights leader in Phila., Penn.

On day that Catto could finally vote (due to 15th Amendment he'd fought for), he was murdered by one of white vigilantes attacking Black voters on #tdih 1871. 💔

#TeachReconstruction ⬇️
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Oct. 10, 1871: Octavius Catto Killed on Election Day in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Black educator, baseball player, and civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto was murdered by a white supremacist on election day.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2d

Last night I attended a public education listening tour hosted by Iowa Dem house members. So many teachers reiterated an atmosphere of total fear, surveillance, & reprisal. One elementary teacher said they refer to the Gulf of Mexico as "The Gulf" to avoid even the suspicion of bias.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 2d

#BannedBooksWeek
Shout out to the teachers, librarians, & community members who hosted #TeachTruth events this year to raise awareness about danger of book bans & curriculum censorship.

See photos & stories ⬇️.

Bring #FreedomtoLearn signs to #NoKings rallies.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...

Teach Truth Day of Action 2025 Event Highlights

Highlights from 2025 Teach Truth events around the United States.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

#tdih 1965 U.S. president halted enforcement of Civil Rights Act in Chicago. Fed funds restored to Chicago BoE after Daley confronted LBJ. They'd been withheld for racist school segregation. Democrats exempted the North.

Read ⬇️ by @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
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Oct. 8, 1965: Enforcement of Civil Rights Act Curtailed in Chicago Schools

Federal funds were quickly restored to Chicago public schools after they were withheld for continued segregation in schools, effectively curtailing enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in Chicago.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 4d

Great to hear. While working on it, we recommend checking out "Economics for Emancipation: A Course on Capitalism, Solidarity and How We Get Free" from the Center for Popular Economics ⬇️and the (out of print) high school guide "Teaching Economics As If People Mattered" economics4emancipation.net

Economics for Emancipation

A Course of Economics for All

economics4emancipation.net

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so looking forward to this conversation on KING OF THE NORTH with the great @sifill.bsky.social with @zinnedproject.bsky.social & @jessehagopian.bsky.social on Monday October 27 at 7:00 EST. All are welcome to tune in: www.zinnedproject.org/news/king-of...

King of the North: Part Two

Historian Jeanne Theoharis returns to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South in conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill. This session is part of the...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 5d

The first Colored Convention in Maine was held on #tdih 1841, in Portland, Maine.

"Delegates addressed both their own economic conditions and the broader national and international struggle for Black liberation."

Follow: @ccp-org.bsky.social Read ⬇️
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Oct. 6, 1841: Maine’s First Colored Convention

The first Colored Convention in Maine was an opportunity for northern Black abolitionists to organize and strategize for racial justice and the freedom of those still enslaved throughout the South.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 6d

"Conservative" is not the word. It's "extremism"--and a host of other words.

But there is nothing conservative about what this regime is doing.

Their project is not conservative, it's regressive.

They don't want to conserve, they want to destroy.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

Free Central America teaching workshop on Monday, Oct. 6: “Cultural Identity Preservation Through Storytelling” & “Resistance and Advocacy of Marginalized Communities (focus on Garifuna)." Hosted by UCI History Project with @teachingchange.bsky.social ⬇️

www.teachingforchange.org/teach-centra...

Teach Central America Workshop - Teaching for Change

Join us for an online workshop on Monday, October 6 with educators who developed Central American Studies units for upper and lower elementary. They will present these lessons: “Cultural Identity Pres...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

Time to #TeachOutsideTextbook about Central America

Join #TeachCentralAmerica Week (Oct. 6-10), hosted by
@teachingchange.bsky.social

Sign up ⬇️for the campaign.

Find lessons, books, films, poetry, art, biographies, teaching stories, & more for pre-K-12.
teachingcentralamerica.org/teach-centra...

Teach Central America Week — Teaching Central America

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

"Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized & disjointed, leaving students ill-equipped to make sense out of their nation’s global bullying." -- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Defend right to #TeachPeoplesHistory
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Disguising Imperialism: How Textbooks Get the Cold War Wrong and Dupe Students

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca The perpetual interventionism and global hegemony exercised by the U.S. government today urgently need to be questioned and dismantled. Such a monumental task requires a citizenr...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

"So Iran/Contra was . . . a way both to bypass specific restrictions in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate . . .

& to neutralize a more diffuse antiwar & anti-interventionist sentiment that had overcome the American public." -- Greg Grandin via @thenation.com
➡️
thenation.com/article/arch...

Unclassified State Department documents with redactions throughout

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

#tdih 1986 Iran-Contra conspiracy began to unravel when Hasenfus was captured by Nicaraguan troops.

U.S. gov't used proceeds from illegal weapons sales to Iran to illegally support Contras.

Bill Barr assisted with cover-up.

Read ⬇️ 🧵#TeachCentralAmerica
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Oct. 5, 1986: Eugene Hasenfus Captured During Iran-Contra Scandal

The cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal began to unravel when Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Nicaraguan troops.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 7d

Despite & in response to EOs censoring teaching honestly, teachers are bravely signing up in greater numbers to access people’s history lessons.

Donate so we can reach & support more teachers with free people’s history lessons & defend their right to use them, here: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

To access lessons which provide my students with opportunities to read and think critically. — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I am interested in teaching students to critically think about the past and how it shapes both the present and future. — Brooklyn, New York
I am about to teach the book Warriors Don’t Cry and want to prepare my freshmen students with historical context. — Kamuela, Hawai’i

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 7d

More reasons ⬇️ why teachers signed up this week to access people's history lessons for the classroom from the Zinn Ed Project.

In many cases, the teachers face risks for teaching truthfully.

I want to incorporate a ZEP lesson for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. — Avondale, Arizona
I would like to access a lesson plan that I saw in Teaching Palestine. — Minneapolis, Minnesota
I read good things about your Reconstruction lessons and want to try them in my U.S. history class. — San Diego, California
I love ZEP. It’s a critical lens and resource list for any teacher fighting the good fight, as I am lucky to be doing. — New York, New York

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 7d

Weekly report.

This week 187 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Avondale, AR; San Diego, CA; Wilmington, DE; Kamuela, HI; Mayfield, KY; Minneapolis, MN; Brooklyn and New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Lehi, UT; Chantilly, VA; & many more cities.

Some reasons why. ⬇️🧵

I’m teaching about McCarthyism. — Lehi, Utah
To be able to teach history the way it is meant to be taught. — Wilmington, Delaware
I like the lessons and content because they tell the truth about U.S. history. — Chantilly, Virginia
I want to access and share high quality, historically accurate resources that highlight the contributions and struggles of marginalized communities. — Mayfield, Kentucky

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 7d

The SNCC Legacy Project @sncclegacy.bsky.social offers a free teaching resource -- an informational booklet and a set of six toolkits on SNCC voting rights, women & gender, art & culture, Black power, organizing, & freedom teaching.

View & download free here: sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassro...

Black and white photo of woman showing a man an information flyer. She is wearing glasses. He is holding a young child. The background is green with white text: SNCC & Grassroots Organizing

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 7d

Via @sncclegacy.bsky.social:

The students. . . kneeled and prayed on [City Hall] steps.

“We are children of God. We petition all our fellow [people] men to love rather than hate.”

1 by 1, police dragged them off.

Read ⬇️-- youth activism & police brutality.
snccdigital.org/events/burgl...

Burglund High School students walkout - SNCC Digital Gateway

On October 4th, 115 Burglund high schools students walked out in response to the expulsions and the murder of Herbert Lee. SNCC had not organized the...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 7d

#tdih 1961 McComb, Miss., at great risk, 100+ HS students walked out to protest the expulsion of classmates for sit-in & murder of voting rights activist & farmer, Herbert Lee.

Marched to City Hall.

While the teens prayed, police beat & jailed them. 🧵
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Oct. 4, 1961: Burglund High School Walkout

Burglund students walked out in response to the expulsions of their classmates and the murder of Herbert Lee.

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Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social · 8d

Who fears critical thinking?

In my new @wordinblacknews.bsky.social article, I show how the @zinnedproject.bsky.social’s “Teach Truth on Constitution Day” campaign teaches which rights it doesn’t protect—& how the rights we have were won by struggle. ✊🏾

#TeachTruth
wordinblack.com/2025/10/no-w...

No Wonder the Right Suppresses Lessons on the Constitution

Educator and activist Jesse Hagopian writes that teaching truth doesn’t harm kids — it prepares them to fight for justice.

wordinblack.com

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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 10d

Starting Sunday, check out all the webinars and programs with authors, booksellers, etc. from @everylibrary.bsky.social
in honor of Banned Books Week and in support of the freedom to read. Listen in!⬇️. www.everylibrary.org/everylibrary...

EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books 2025 Calendar

Join EveryLibrary Live! for Banned Books Week Fest 2025, a free online celebration featuring 25+ authors, editors, and advocates in bold conversations about storytelling, censorship, and the freedom t...

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