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Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.

Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social

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Every day we hear from teachers working long hours on lessons so young people can learn from history to shape a just future.

Like Shelina Warren (in 📷 ) & more on Constitution Day: www.zinnedproject.org/news/hundred...

Meanwhile, Steve Bannon said today: "1/3 of K-12+ teachers are terrorists."
Two women at an information table inside a building with stairs in background. Dr. Shelina Warren hosted a voter registration table and a Know Your Rights station at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.
September 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A history we must remember as techbros try to move us back to "company town" dynamics
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#tdih 1960. W. Tenn. Black sharecroppers registered to vote (to break all-white juries which denied fair trial).

White landowners evicted them in cold of winter, “barred them from buying groceries or gas, & from receiving bank loans and medical services.” 💔 ⬇️ 🧵
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Dec. 28, 1960: Black Farmers in Tennessee Evicted for Registering to Vote
Black sharecroppers were evicted by white landowners simply for exercising their right to register to vote.
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December 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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#tdih 1960. W. Tenn. Black sharecroppers registered to vote (to break all-white juries which denied fair trial).

White landowners evicted them in cold of winter, “barred them from buying groceries or gas, & from receiving bank loans and medical services.” 💔 ⬇️ 🧵
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Dec. 28, 1960: Black Farmers in Tennessee Evicted for Registering to Vote
Black sharecroppers were evicted by white landowners simply for exercising their right to register to vote.
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December 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Last week 45 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Hamden, CT; New Orleans, LA; Las Vegas, NV; Silverdale, WA; & many more cities. Some reasons why or how they found us ⬇️

Donate so we can continue to offer free people’s history lessons & classes: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/
I loved A People’s History and I want similarly critical lessons for my students. — New Orleans, Louisiana I was looking for lessons on climate change with an Indigenous perspective. — Silverdale, Washington I was looking for relevant lessons for my history students and found the Zinn Education Project. — Las Vegas, Nevada To access “How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century.” — Hamden, Connecticut
December 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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With thousands of teachers using Zinn Ed Project lessons, we hear powerful stories about the impact these lessons have in the classroom.

⬇️ are just a few from this year.

Please donate so we can continue to offer all our lessons & classes for free in 2026.
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Impact of Teaching People's History
Stories from teachers using Zinn Education Project lessons in 2025.
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December 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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In 2025, Educators Didn’t Just Endure Repression. They Built Resistance: The right wants the teaching of history to no longer indict power or inspire resistance. But our side won’t submit.

Includes ZEP "Teaching for Black Lives" study groups.

By @jessehagopian.bsky.social via @truthout.org ⬇️
In 2025, Educators Didn’t Just Endure Repression. They Built Resistance.
The right wants the teaching of history to no longer indict power or inspire resistance. But our side won’t submit.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Maryland teacher Harriet Brown, with Thurgood Marshall of
the NAACP, sued for equal pay for African American teachers.

#tdih 1937, BOE ruled in her favor. Norfolk, VA tchr fired for same demand.

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Dec. 27, 1937: Harriet Elizabeth Brown Case Settled
Harriet Elizabeth Brown was a Calvert County school teacher in the 1930s. In 1937, she became aware that white teachers were making almost twice the salary of Black teachers who had the same level of ...
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December 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#tdih 1907, start of the largest rent strike in NYC, led by by 16-year-old Pauline Newman.

The success of the strike depended both on shop floor networks of teenaged girls and door-to-door organizing by networks of neighborhood housewives and mothers. ⬇️

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Dec. 26, 1907: New York City Rent Strike
Months of organizing work by 16-year-old Pauline Newman culminated in the start of the largest rent strike in New York City’s history.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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#tdih 1951 The home of Harry T. and Harriette Moore in Mims, Florida was bombed by Klan — killing them both on their silver wedding anniv. #Terrorism

The Moores (parents and teachers) organized with the NAACP for voting & labor rights and against lynching. 🧵⬇️
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Dec. 25, 1951: Murder of Harriette and Harry Moore in Florida
The Ku Klux Klan bombed the home of labor and voting rights activists Harry T. Moore and Harriette Moore — killing them both. Harriette Moore taught elementary school, secretly teaching her students B...
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December 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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#tdih Christmas, 1961

Aaron Henry (Miss. NAACP pres. & pharmacist) & Coahoma County NAACP organized Christmas boycott of white-owned stores in Clarksdale, Miss.

Henry & other Black leaders convicted for "Conspiring to withhold trade."

#TeachTruth

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Dec. 1961: Christmas Shopping Boycott
Aaron Henry (Mississippi state NAACP president, pharmacist, drugstore owner) and the Coahoma County NAACP organized an effective Christmas shopping boycott in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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December 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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#tdih 1521: enslaved Africans on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by Christopher Columbus's son attempted to free themselves and take over the land.

This was the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas. ⬇️🧵
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Dec. 25, 1521: Enslaved People Revolt in Santo Domingo
Enslaved people on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by the son of Christopher Columbus attempted to free themselves and take over the land in the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas...
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December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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"The parents they cried and the miners they moaned, 'See what your greed for money has done.'" -- "1913 Massacre" a Woody Guthrie song

#tdih 1913 Calumet, Michigan Italian Hall disaster killed 73 people (59 children)💔, from families of striking copper miners. ⬇️
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Dec. 24, 1913: Calumet Italian Hall Disaster
The Italian Hall disaster killed 73 people, 59 of them children, from families of striking copper miners.
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December 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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"They’re not shooting me for deserting . . . They just need to make an example out of somebody and I’m it because I’m an ex-con. They’re shooting me for the bread and chewing gum I stole when I was 12." -- Eddie Slovik, his execution authorized #tdih 1944 ⬇️
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Dec. 23, 1944: The Case of Eddie Slovik
General Dwight Eisenhower endorsed the finding of a court-martial in the case of Eddie Slovik, who deserted from the U.S. Army during World War II.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#tdih 1969, John Trudell broadcast Radio Free Alcatraz via @kpfa.org for first time from the Native occupation of Alcatraz Island.

Listen to recordings at Pacifica Archives.

Trudell was tracked and threatened by FBI under COINTELPRO. #TeachTruth

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Dec. 22, 1969: Radio Free Alcatraz
Radio Free Alcatraz broadcasts for the first time.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, General, suffragist, and spy Harriet Tubman engineered her first rescue mission in December of 1850.

The exact date is unknown. #tdih #TeachOutsideTextbook

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Dec. 1850: Harriet Tubman Engineered First Rescue Mission
Abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Tubman, perhaps the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, engineered her first rescue mission in December 1850.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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"The issue was not whether I belonged in the military but whether the military belonged in the Middle East waging war."

#tdih 1990, Kansas reservist / physician Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn refused orders to serve in "Desert Storm" and was sentenced to prison.
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Dec. 20, 1990: Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn Refused Service in First Gulf War
Kansas reservist Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn refused orders to serve in the first Gulf War (Desert Storm).
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December 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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A wonderful documentary about this by Beverly and George Gage, “Bidder 70” 👀. youtu.be/n1jJhjUNlGE?...
December 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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#tdih 2008, Tim DeChristopher placed fake bids. Disrupted a gov't oil & gas lease auction to protect fragile land in Utah from long term damage & reduce fossil fuel extraction. #CivilDisobedience

Jailed for 2 years. #TeachClimateJustice Art by Robert Shetterly
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Dec. 19, 2008: Tim DeChristopher Protests Bureau of Land Management
Tim DeChristopher of Peaceful Uprising protested a Bureau of Land Management auction of public land in Utah’s redrock country.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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#Fridayreport

This week 111 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Tampa, FL; Atlanta and Stonecrest, GA; Danville, IN; Kansas City, KS; Columbia, MO; Durham, NC; & many more cities. #TeachOutsideTextbook

Some reasons why ⬇️ 🧵
I’d like new ways to engage my students with environmental justice. — Durham, North Carolina I would like my students to complete the Constitution Gallery Walk. — Stonecrest, Georgia I love the work you are doing. I hope to be more equipped to teach others about true history. — Kansas City, Kansas I signed up for resources to expand my students’ understanding of SNCC and the Black Panther Party, as well as the role of terrorism in enforcing the status quo of Jim Crow. — Tampa, Florida
December 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
Text in graphic reads: "Book Bans Wrapped: ALA, Book Riot, Florida Freedom to Read Project, PEN America, and Texas Freedom to Read Project are sounding the alarm: CENSORSHIP IS ON THE RISE" Large stylized "2025" at bottom of image.
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Our country was shocked when migrant children were held in detention or separated from their parents. In the late 1800s/early 1900s, over a third of Native kids were sent to govt-run assimilation schools, where many died...
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Here's a 🧵 with quotes from "Is It Too Late?" by @sifill.bsky.social. Please read in full & subscribe.

"Many of those with the biggest platforms know very little about race, so they protect their status as experts by insisting that race is not the issue."

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Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
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December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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#tdih 1972 Nixon & Kissinger initiated a massive 11-day “carpet bombing” campaign in North Vietnam (mainly Hanoi), officially called “Operation Linebacker II” (& sports aren’t political?).

Also became known as "Christmas Bombing." 💔#TeachOutsideTextbook
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Dec. 18, 1972: Christmas Bombing of Vietnam
Richard Nixon initiated a massive “carpet bombing” campaign in Northern Vietnam, mainly targeting Hanoi.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM