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Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of @NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, & editor of NAACP’s @thecrisismag. 🧵 ⬇️
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"One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. . . The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that . . . it paints perfect man & noble nations, but it does not tell the truth." ― W.E.B. DuBois

"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." -- W. E. B. Du Bois in "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935), reissued 2021.

Video ⬇️of talk on book by Eric Foner, @KeeangaYamahtta, & @HenryLouisGates ⬇️
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WWII vet Louis Allen was murdered #tdih 1964. Why?

Allen was willing to testify about murder he had witnessed of African American @NAACP member & SNCC supporter Herbert Lee by a white state legislator.

FBI refused protection. #TeachVotingRights🧵
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Allen knew his life was in danger in Amite County, Miss. He stayed because his mother was elderly & needed care.

When his mother died, Allen made plans to move to Milwaukee. (Great Migration continues.)

The night before Allen was to leave, he was murdered. #terrorism

Traditional Civil Rights Movement narratives ignore that fight for civil, voting, & human rights was frequently met with terrorist violence, as exemplified by story of Louis Allen and countless others. #TeachOutsideTextbook

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"Bob Moses of SNCC is arrested for 'Disturbing the Peace' when he tries to escort an elderly Black women into the courthouse to register." -- #tdih 1964, Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Read report from movement veterans ⬇️ #TeachVotingRights
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“You know they said outsiders was coming in & beginning to get the people stirred up because they’ve always been satisfied. Well, as long as I can remember, I’ve never been satisfied.” -- Fannie Lou Hamer to Howard Zinn, Freedom Day in Hattiesburg More ⬇️
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"Textbooks offer false impression that history of voting rights in US is hopeful tale of steady progress, culminating in 1965. Provides them no context to understand our current moment." More ⬇️
Anti-history (anti-"CRT") bills designed to keep it that way.
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#tdih Veterans Day. Read about African American veterans who fought overseas and, upon return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy & human rights.

Also, resources about vets organizing against war and Lincoln Brigades. ⬇️ 🧵#TeachOutsideTextbook
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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 Jim Crow hospital denied him treatment. ⬇️#TeachTruth
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#VeteransDay In 1955, WWI vet and 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 and film by @KeithBeauchamp w/ @jelani9⬇️ #TeachVotingRights
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#tdih Nov. 3 🧵starts with uplifting 1874 Reconstruction election of Robert Smalls to Congress (SC) ⬇️

Next: stories of violent 19th cent. voter suppression in Va. & Ala., Native American protest ('72), Greensboro Massacre ('79), Iran/Contra ('86), more.
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#tdih 1874, White League attacked Black voters at the polls in Barbour County, Ala.

7 African-Americans were killed & 70 others wounded.

More than 1,000 African-Americans were driven away from polls. Rewrite the marker. #terrorism #TeachReconstruction
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#tdih 1883 Danville, Virginia: White supremacists used terrorism to remove the elected, biracial Readjuster Party.

Armed white supremacists killed five people and patrolled streets to prevent most African Americans from voting. #terrorism #TeachTruth
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Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of @NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, and editor of NAACP’s @thecrisismag.
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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." -- W. E. B. Du Bois on "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935), just reissued. Video ⬇️of talk about book by Eric Foner, @KeeangaYamahtta, & @HenryLouisGates
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Allen knew his life was in danger if he stayed in Amite County, Miss. but he had to care for his elderly mother.

When his mother passed away, Allen made plans to move to Milwaukee. (Great Migration continues.)

The night before Allen was to leave, he was killed. #terrorism 2/6

Traditional Civil Rights Movement narratives ignore that fight for civil, voting, and human rights was often met with terrorist violence, as exemplified by story of Louis Allen and countless others. #TeachOutsideTextbook 3/6

See more in @snccdigital ⬇️
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"Bob Moses of SNCC is arrested for 'Disturbing the Peace' when he tries to escort an elderly Black women into the courthouse to register." -- #tdih 1964, Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Read report from movement veterans ⬇️ #TeachVotingRights
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Politicians on the Right keep claiming that the proposed voting rights legislation is an illegitimate "federal takeover" of fed elections. @jbouie refutes those claims in his new column ⬇️, & so has the 15th Amendment since Reconstruction. . . #TeachTruth
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See "Reconstruction Defined" in our new national report. Here we note that 15th Amendment federally banned racial discrimination in right to vote, and explicitly gave Congress power to enforce this principle.
Read ⬇️ and check out your state's assessment.
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15th Amendment soon yielded criminal penalties for interference with right to vote & federal oversight of congressional elections through Enforcement Acts of 1870 & 1871. Overtly violated ever since, including Jan. 6 attack on Capitol. #TeachVotingRights
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#tdih Veterans Day. Read about African American veterans who fought in various wars and upon their return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy and human rights. Also resources to teach about vets organizing against war. ⬇️#TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/vete…

#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 Jim Crow hospital denied him treatment. #TeachTruth
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#VeteransDay In 1955, WWI vet and farmer Lamar Smith was shot dead in cold blood on crowded courthouse lawn in Miss. for urging African American to vote. No one prosecuted. See @naacp primer and film by @KeithBeauchamp w/ @jelani9 ⬇️ #TeachVotingRights
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#tdih Nov. 3 🧵.

Start w/uplifting 1874 Reconstruction election of Robert Smalls to Congress (for SC) ⬇️

Next: stories of violent 19th cent. voter suppression in Virginia & Alabama, Native American protest (1972), Greensboro Massacre (1979), more.
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#tdih 1874, White League attacked Black voters at the polls in Barbour County, Ala. Seven African-Americans were killed & 70 others wounded. More than 1,000 African-Americans were driven away from polls. Rewrite the marker. #terrorism #TeachReconstruction zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/1874…

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#tdih 1870 the first African Americans were elected to the House of Representatives.

It is critically important to teach about "freedom's unfinished revolution" -- the era of Reconstruction. #TeachTruth

Find free lessons and recommended books & films ⬇️
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"When myself and colleagues shall leave these Halls and turn our footsteps toward our Southern homes we know not but that the assassin may await our coming, as marked for his vengeance." -- Joseph Rainey, elected #tdih 1870, on white supremacist terrorism. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jose…

"What you give to one class you must give to all. What you deny to one class, you deny to all." -- Congressperson Robert B. Elliott of SC (elected #tdih 1870) in 1874 speech to advocate for Civil Rights Act.

It is worth pausing to read speech in full ⬇️
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"If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one." -- Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917 in Montgomery Cty, Miss. Hamer and thousands more Mississippians took one of boldest moves in U.S. history to fight for real democracy in nat'l elections. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fann…

"Black people know what white people mean when they say 'law and order.'" -- Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917.

Read profile (ideal for gr 6+) of Hamer with primary docs & interview at @snccdigital here: snccdigital.org/people/fannie-… (In photo below with Ms. Ella Baker & more.)

“You can pray until you faint, but if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.” -- Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917

Read about her fight for voting rights by @KeishaBlain via @smithsonianmag #TeachVotingRights
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#tdih 1866 Massacre of African Americans in New Orleans at an interracial voting rights convention. Attacked by white mobs and police (that included ex-Confederates). No charges.

Time to #TeachReconstruction and long history of voter suppression. Read ⬇️
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Teachers: Here is 3-lesson unit on long history of voter suppression and organizing for right to vote. For grades 7+. Includes testimony by Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. #TeachVotingRights on this 150th anniversary yr of 15th Amend. Free book for teaching story. zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…

1866 NOLA Massacre is one of countless in U.S. history to suppress voting rights, land own., economic adv., education, press freedom, religion, LGBTQ rights, &/or labor rights of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, & immigrants. zinnedproject.org/collection/mas…

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#tdih 1874 Describing themselves as defenders of a “hereditary civilization and Christianity,” a group of Confederate veterans in La. formed the White League.

Stated purpose was restoration of white supremacy. #terrorism 1/4 [📷 teacher murdered by WL]

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The paramilitary group operated openly to eliminate the Reconstruction government by targeting local Republican officeholders for assassination and terrorizing freed people to keep them from voting, political organizing, and getting an education. #TeachVotingRights history. 2/4

Julia Hayden, a 17-year-old schoolteacher, was shot to death by White League within three days of starting to work at school for freed people in Hartsville, Tenn. in fall of 1874. #TeachReconstruction (See her image and find link to news story in first tweet in this thread.) 3/4

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Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of @NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, and editor of NAACP’s @thecrisismag. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/web-…

"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." -- W. E. B. Du Bois | To #TeachReconstruction, begin w/ Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America," 1st published in 1935. #peopleshistory #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/blac…

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“You can pray until you faint, but if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.” -- Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917.

Read about her fight for voting rights by @KeishaBlain via @smithsonianmag smithsonianmag.com/history/fannie… #TeachVotingRights

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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was formally adopted on #tdih 1920. It was a milestone in a long and ongoing struggle for full voting rights and democracy in the U.S. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/19th…

"Voter suppression, certainly since the Civil War, has rarely announced itself as such, right? . . . Voter suppression has always come dressed up as procedure, as process, as neutral." -- @marthasjones_ (on @samsanders) Read "Vanguard" (release: 9/8/2020) zinnedproject.org/materials/vang…

Teach about the long and ongoing struggle for voting rights with these three lessons by @LadyOfSardines Includes close reading of text by Fannie Lou Hamer and mixer with dozens of roles. For grades 7+. Free. #TeachVotingRights zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…

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THREAD #tdih 1964 Grassroots citizens in Miss. Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) asked DNC and nation — why would all-white delegation be seated, despite fact that they had used state-sponsored terrorism and violated the Constitution to suppress voting? zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mfdp…

Why wouldn't the delegation that had followed the rules and opened its doors to all — regardless of race, gender, literacy, and employment — be selected by the DNC to represent the state instead of white supremacists? MFDP goal: “one person, one vote.” zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mfdp…

Question of citizenship & political representation is as important today as it was then—yet MFDP is not even mentioned in many major U.S. history textbooks. Vital lessons about possibilities of grassroots democracy are lost to next generation of voters. zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…

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#tdih 1866 Massacre of African Americans in New Orleans who were defending rights (incl. vote.) Attacked by white mobs and police (that included ex-Confederates). Time to #TeachReconstruction and long history of voter suppression. #DefundPolice Read ⬇️
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7/17/2020, death of 2 key figures in CRM and beyond. C.T. Vivian in photo below leads a prayer on courthouse steps in Selma in 1965. Had petitions asking for longer voter registration hours. He was arrested. Read via @BlackPastOnline here: blackpast.org/african-americ… Photo: AP | Cort

“I felt defiance in every direction: against the entrenched segregation of the South; against the neglect of the federal government, and also against the conservative concerns of the established factions." -- Congressperson John Lewis via @snccdigital snccdigital.org/people/john-le…

One key resource to introduce young people to Rev. C. T. Vivian and Congressperson John Lewis is the classic documentary, "Eyes on the Prize." zinnedproject.org/materials/eyes…

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Join us in wishing a happy birthday to Ms. Dorie Ladner, SNCC vet, born and raised in Mississippi. Learn about her ongoing life of activism (now in D.C.) via @snccdigital. See: snccdigital.org/people/dorie-l…

Learn about Dorie Ladner and other women in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi from the excellent documentary, "Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders" via @womenmakemovies zinnedproject.org/materials/stan…

Teach about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with this multi-lesson unit by high school U.S. history teacher Adam Sanchez. #TeachVotingRights zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…

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"Traitors shall not dictate or prescribe to us the terms or conditions of our citizenship, so help us God." -- On election day in Norfolk (#tdih 1865) African Americans tested their right to vote and when denied, cast their own "freedom ballots." Read ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/blac…

The "freedom ballot" was same strategy used in 1963 where 83,000 Mississippians cast their ballot in the Freedom Vote (when African Americans were denied legal vote) -- they voted at Sunday church services, beauty parlors, pool halls. See @snccdigital ⬇️ snccdigital.org/events/mississ…

Read full 1865 "Address from Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Va., to the People of the US. Also an Account of the Agitation Among the Colored People of Virginia for Equal Rights. With an Appendix Concerning the Rights of Colored Witnesses" at @CCP_org See: omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/563

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#tdih 1870 150 yrs ago. Fifteenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution was formally adopted. Declared the right of U.S. citizens to vote could “not be abridged or denied” by any state "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fift…

On a per capita and absolute basis, more African Americans were elected to public office during the period from 1865 to 1880 than at any other time in U.S. history. These legislatures brought in programs of public benefit such as universal public education. #TeachReconstruction

Over time, the 15th Amendment would be narrowly interpreted, allowing states to implement white supremacist restrictions such as poll taxes and "literacy" tests that did not mention race by name, but effectively prevented most African Americans from voting. #teachvotingrights

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