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The parents' brave resistance in the Lemon Grove case came during a massive U.S. gov't. campaign of deportations of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the U.S. from late 1920s to late 1930s.

Free lesson for grades 7+ below. #TeachPeoplesHistory #TeachTruth
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Deportations on Trial: Mexican Americans During the Great Depression
Students analyze who is to blame for the illegal mass deportations of Mexican Americans and immigrants during the Great Depression.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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"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

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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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October 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Camilla Massacre of 1868 is one of many stories in U.S. history that highlight need for reparations.

See the lesson by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, free for download. Students design a reparations bill.

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Repair: Students Design a Reparations Bill
In this activity, students take on the role of activist-experts to improve upon a Congressional bill for reparations for Black people.
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September 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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#tdih Sept. 11, 1973 Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende died in a U.S.-backed coup.

As a direct result, this was followed by decades of brutal dictatorship by Gen. Pinochet.

See timeline of coup below. #TeachPeoplesHistory
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Sept. 11, 1973: U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile
Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende was killed in a U.S.-backed coup.
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September 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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“It is hard for many Black people to see MAGA in the United States as a new phenomenon as the very foundation of this nation was built on an ideology of racism and imperialism.” — Anita Plummer, associate professor of African Studies at Howard University

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August 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The parents' brave resistance in the Lemon Grove case came during a massive U.S. gov't. campaign of deportations of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the U.S. from late 1920s to late 1930s.

Free lesson for grades 7+ below. #TeachPeoplesHistory #TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/de...
Deportations on Trial: Mexican Americans During the Great Depression
Students analyze who is to blame for the illegal mass deportations of Mexican Americans and immigrants during the Great Depression.
www.zinnedproject.org
January 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM