Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"Since Baker never wrote an organizing manual or ideological treatise, her theory was literally inscribed in her daily work — her practice." —Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (the flower got away from me — it happens) #ComradeCard https://t.co/6oMKLBIWFe

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Was reminded of the great Lerone Bennett Jr.'s foreword to Vincent Harding's Hope and History, which is a tribute to teaching & teachers. He says that history is not "a spectacle but a task," & good teachers recognize that.

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@HarperKeenan Have you read Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing? Or her new one, Saving Time?

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Re-reading Reconsidering Reparations by @OlufemiOTaiwo with an eye toward some new high school curriculum on #ClimateReparations. https://t.co/h8qjX4MxDL

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Read the first chapter (letter) of Rehearsals for Living (by @policingblack & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson) this morning & copied down this quotation for the next time I need to explain what we mean when we say #TeachClimateJustice. https://t.co/PiwLjp2i3y

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This afternoon, @ZinnEdProject is hosting @JeanneTheoharis in conversation with @JessedHagopian. They’ll discuss & show excerpts from the new documentary, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. I will be there! https://t.co/3jDhHCA96f

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Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes say they had newer organizers in mind when they wrote Let This Radicalize You; yes, if you are new to organizing, this book is for you! https://t.co/12M3HjPQmI

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Imani Perry (@imaniperry) is here! She is asked about why recommends Southern Mystique by Howard Zinn in her most recent book South to America.

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Dr. Roberts is the author of *I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land* which “chart[s] cycles of dispossession, land seizure, & settlement in Indian Territory, draw[ing] on archival research & family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction.”

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Dr. Williams recommends two books in particular on this: @katemasur's Until Justice Be Done & Stacey Smith's Freedom's Frontier. (I used some of Smith's work to learn about Reconstruction here in Oregon!) https://t.co/QhQfmuvQW9