#VeteransDay

WWII vet Maceo Snipes was killed on July 18, 1946 by KKK for bravely casting vote in Georgia Democratic Primary. 💔

He may have survived Klan #terrorism, but, after walking 3 miles to hospital, Jim Crow hospital denied him treatment. ⬇️#TeachTruth
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#VeteransDay

Veterans played a major role in the anti-Vietnam War movement.

As described in doc., Sir! No Sir!: more than 200 underground newspapers were published by soldiers around the world; thousands joined local & nat'l antiwar GI organizations ⬇️
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We recommend historian @mattdelmont.bsky.social’s book, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad," for high school & adults.

Teachers, school librarians, & teacher educators received free copies.

Read ⬇️
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#VeteransDay

Remember the Lincoln Brigades -- notably absent from many textbooks & from Ken Burns' "US & the Holocaust" series.

“Black Americans in Spain were among the first to try to stop Franco, Mussolini, & Hitler.” -- @mattdelmont.bsky.social | Read⬇️
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#VeteransDay

"We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting." — W. E. B. Du Bois

Read @eji.org report on lynching of Black veterans & stories of Lemuel Penn, Medgar Evers, Louis Allen, Maceo Snipes, Black soldiers in Houston, & many more. ⬇️
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Veteran Clyde Kennard bravely & righteously tried to pursue higher education in Mississippi.

He faced the fatal (died 7/4/1963) 💔 wrath of the state as a result of his efforts to challenge white supremacy.

Portrait by Americans Who Tell the Truth

Read ⬇️
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#VeteransDay

WWII vet & father Medgar Evers of NAACP was murdered 💔 in 1963 in driveway of his home for his fight for voting rights and his brave investigation of murders of African Americans in Mississippi.

Read more ⬇️ #TeachOutsideTextbook
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#VeteransDay

In 1955, WWI vet & farmer Lamar Smith was shot dead in cold blood on crowded courthouse lawn in Miss. for urging African Americans to vote. 💔

No one prosecuted. See NAACP primer & film by @keithabeauchamp.bsky.social with @jelaniya.bsky.social ⬇️
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#VeteransDay

WWII vet Maceo Snipes was killed on July 18, 1946 by KKK for bravely casting vote in Georgia Democratic Primary. 💔

He may have survived Klan #terrorism, but, after walking 3 miles to hospital, Jim Crow hospital denied him treatment. ⬇️#TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mu...

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Help us continue to provide people's history lessons and defend right to #TeachTruth.

After summer of 2020, many more teachers started to teach people's history, like story of Wilmington Massacre.

This admin. is censoring people's history.

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Wilmington Massacre (#tdih 1898) is a clear example of need for reparations.

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote lesson ⬇️ because "reparations are nowhere in the textbooks my school district has adopted to help me teach young people in the U.S. about their past."
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This was a coup d’etat against an elected, interracial Reconstruction era government.

Reconstruction does not get nearly enough attention in most schools.

Read our national report ⬇️ & advocate for more time & resources for the era in your district & nationally.
www.teachreconstructionreport.org

Wilmington Massacre is one of countless in U.S. history. Most massacres were designed by white supremacists to suppress voting rights, land ownership, economic advancement, education, freedom of press, & more.

List ⬇️ of many more (but by no means all).
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"Lost in the fire that destroyed 'The Daily Record' were the lives of Black citizens and the spirit of a thriving Black community, and also the most promising effort in the South to build racial solidarity." -- @theatlantic.com ⬆️

Like Tulsa & many more.
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“They burned down Black newspapers all over the state [of NC]. They shut down entry to the city from Blacks and Republicans. . . It’s important not to forget that this was planned. . ." about Wilmington Massacre, ⬇️ by Vann Newkirk & @adriennelaf.bsky.social
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Nazi officials blamed Jews for the riots (pogrom), & imposed massive fine on German Jewish community.

Similar pattern with 1919 Elaine Massacre. White mobs killed African Americans, then state sentenced 12 Black men to death, blaming them for the violence.

Many more examples up through today.

This is commonly referred to as Kristallnacht.

However, Raoul Wallenberg Foundation & more groups note it's the “Nazi term for the event” and “make[s] little of what befell the Jews of Germany and Austria on these days. We must recognize that there were a lot more broken than glass.”

Thanks for recommending this poetry collection from @haymarketbooks.org. We'll add it as a companion resource on the Creole revolt #tdih post.