Jan. 1 #tdih 🧵 #1 Haitian Independence #tdih 1804 "We owe much to Walker for his appeal; to John Brown. . . but we owe incomparably more to Haiti . . . I regard her as original pioneer emancipator of 19th cent. — F. Douglass ⬇️ Art by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ha...

With thousands of teachers using ZEP people's history lessons each year, we hear powerful stories about the impact these lessons have in classrooms. Here are just a few. Please donate (find link on post below) to help us reach more students in 2026. www.zinnedproject.org/news/impact-...

Thank you Abby Saul for countless IG posts for Teaching for Change's @teachingchange.bsky.social Social Justice Books and (with @rethinkingschools.bsky.social) Zinn Ed Project & since 2018. We'll continue to collaborate on early childhood ed, Free Palestine, and overall organizing for justice.

The publisher of "Stitching Freedom: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance, and Hope in Angola Prison" by Gary Tyler will send a copy to anyone who donates $200 or more to the Zinn Education Project. Just add a note that you would like a copy when you donate here: www.zinnedproject.org/donate

If you have learned history on this feed that you wish had been part of school curriculum, you can help make that happen. Please donate today so we can continue to provide all our lessons, classes, study groups, and many books for free to classroom teachers. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/bring-p...

#tdih 1972 Roberto Clemente died in plane crash. 💔 He flew at great risk (only as a last resort) with supplies for earthquake devastated Nicaraguans. If Nixon had aided Nicaraguan people, instead of dictator Somoza, after quake, Clemente may not have felt compelled to board that plane. Read ⬇️

#tdih 1971: Daniel Ellsberg and Tony Russo indicted for releasing Pentagon Papers to news. Papers outlined "history" of US in Vietnam since 1945. In other words, their “crime” was to reveal history. Sound familiar? Read ⬇️ Donate: zinnedproject.org/donate/ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...

#tdih 1923, Catcher terror attacks on African Americans began, forcing at least 40 families from their homes and the creation of another sundown town in Arkansas. 💔 Who was blamed & arrested? Read ⬇️from Encyclopedia of Arkansas and the book by James Loewen. 🧵 zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...

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."

A history we must remember as techbros try to move us back to "company town" dynamics

#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.” 💔 ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...

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/

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. www.zinnedproject.org/news/impact-...

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 ⬇️

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. Support teacher activism today: zinnedproject.org/donate/ Read ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ha...

#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. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ny...

#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. 🧵⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mo...

#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 More ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...

#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. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/en...

"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. ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...

"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 ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ed...

#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 More ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ra...

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 Read ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ha...

"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. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dr...

A wonderful documentary about this by Beverly and George Gage, “Bidder 70” 👀. youtu.be/n1jJhjUNlGE?...

#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 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ti...

#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 ⬇️ 🧵

"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!

Without educators & reporters sharing what is happening to, and in, our schools, bad actors are left free to rob our students’ future to pay for an unequal & inhospitable present. Your donations and support make partnerships with groups like last year's with @zinnedproject.bsky.social possible!

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

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...

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." sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...

#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 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...

#tdih 1951, Paul Robeson submitted a petition (edited by William Patterson) to the U.N. titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” signed by close to 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...

Yet another excellent courtroom exhibit.

DJT: We are the hottest country anywhere in the world Me at home to the screen: Yes because of climate change sir

#tdih 1965, students sent home because they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam War. Four years later, SCOTUS ruled in their favor in Tinker v. Des Moines. Precedent set by Mississippi case about wearing SNCC voting rights buttons to school. Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/st...

If you’re telling Head Start programs they can’t say “disability”, “Black”, “female”, or “Tribal” in order to get funded—you don’t care about kids. Period. This administration is attacking the very protections that keep children safe and supported. Our kids are not political props.

We look forward to learning from Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Mapping Deportations site co-creators (including a radical cartographer) later today. Not too late to sign up. Join us. www.zinnedproject.org/news/mapping...

You know who fascist fear the most? Teachers, because we teach critical thinking skills, we promote the common good & fascist don’t believe in the common good. I’m a teacher & I’m about to get real loud. I will not stay silent while fascists try to steal the future from our kids

"At least 15 people were fatally shot during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. . . Victims included a 10-yr-old, two rabbis & a Holocaust survivor who died while shielding his wife from bullets." 💔 "Australia is vowing to enact stricter gun laws." Watch @democracynow.org story ⬇️

"At least 15 people were fatally shot during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. . . Victims included a 10-yr-old, two rabbis & a Holocaust survivor who died while shielding his wife from bullets." 💔 "Australia is vowing to enact stricter gun laws." Watch @democracynow.org story ⬇️

#tdih 1791, Bill of Rights ratified. "And so we should celebrate, not the words of the Bill of Rights, certainly not the political leaders who utter those words and violate them every day, [instead] all those people who risked . . . to affirm the rights we all have. . ." -- Howard Zinn Read ⬇️

My heart goes out to the victims of the mass shooting at Brown University, their families, and the Brown community. Students and educators deserve the freedom to go to school with safety and without fear. We will not stop advocating for an end to gun violence.

Friday report: This week 136 teachers signed up (many bravely) at ZEP for people’s history lessons from D.C.; Chicago; Brooklyn; Pittsburgh; & many more cities. Some reasons why. ⬇️ Donate so we can reach more teachers & defend their right to teach people's history: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

#tdih 1872 Reconstruction included international solidarity. Meeting in NY of Cuban Anti-Slavery Society to address “abhorrence with Spanish Government for the . . . tenacity with which they cling [in Cuba] to the barbarous and inhuman institution of Slavery.” www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/re...

Don't miss the chance to hear from award-winning scholar Kelly Lytle Hernández on Monday at 7pm ET. She will provide an introduction to the new Mapping Deportations site, including how the history of anti-immigrant legislation and racism are intertwined. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/mapping...

What Activists Can Learn From Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott

"Once again did the monster rebellion lift its hydra head in renewed defiance, cruel & cowardly, fearing the light of day. . ." -- Joseph H. Rainey on KKK #tdih 1870 Rainey became first African American to serve in U.S. House of Reps #TeachReconstruction ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jo...

Eye-opening gift for any young person or teacher you know -- young readers edition of "How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America" by Clint Smith, adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul. While copies last -- 40% off the list price ⬇️. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ho...