Zinn Ed Project Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"Freedom Walkers" -- recommended for grades 5+. "Russell Freedman gives accounts of how much coordination and sacrifice went into conducting the MBB . . . using actual recorded words and deeds of the people to tell the story." https://t.co/zkR1scy1Tr

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Reid references research & book by historian Scott Reynolds Nelson @nelsonhist, "Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend." Good example of where truth in history would help young people be alert to myths & dangers today. ⬇️ https://t.co/Wq6SSztCuw

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We recommend Alaina Roberts' "I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" -- see above. For gr. 7+, see "Black Birds in the Sky" by @brandycolbert. Trail of Tears, Reconstruction, Black towns, Red Summer, Black & white newspapers, & more. https://t.co/rK3BkQm9QQ

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"The targets of deadly assault by law enforcement at Jackson State have been twice victimized, their story erased from nation’s public narrative, their trauma largely forgotten." -- Nancy Bristow via @thenation, author of "Steeped in the Blood of Racism" https://t.co/j7yCcVY5NO https://t.co/YuCYoDCpkU

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Read about Plessy case & long, ongoing history of struggle for racial equality in transportation in "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance" by @mia__bay ⬇️ For young people to learn this history, we need to defend right to #TeachOutsideTextbook https://t.co/b9MrvoeJQf

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#tdih #otd 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in U. S. Senate. "The transubstantiation of Andrew Johnson was complete . . . the tragedy of American prejudice made flesh" -- W. E. B. Du Bois in "Black Reconstruction" Read ⬇️ https://t.co/25NpIuvLlu

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Picture book "Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations" by @kelstarly introduces young readers to 120-yr history of song & its role through Great Migration, Jim Crow, Civil Rights Movement, HBCU graduations, @NMAAHC opening, & today. https://t.co/xeWfAeCQ16

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“It would be unusual for a story that begins in the wrong place to arrive at the right conclusions.” --Howard French, "Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, & the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to WWII" Essential reading for world & US history teachers https://t.co/L6AqQJnEwE

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Check out this wonderful work ⬇️based on reading "Half American" on African Americans during WWII by @mattdelmont https://t.co/cihyFJfWsX THIS is why we advocate for right to #TeachOutsideTextbook so students can be creative, think critically, ask questions, pursue knowledge. https://t.co/ZBsZ9uMKTE

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#tdih 1979, the Boston University faculty union called a strike. Howard Zinn was one of the strike committee co-chairs. Read ⬇️ about the strike from Zinn's autobiography, "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train." https://t.co/mXGGFRyv9E