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If We Knew Our History Series
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Guns and the Southern Freedom Struggle: What's Missing When We Teach About Nonviolence
By Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee veteran and journalist
 | | Fire bomb watch at a community center in Mileston, Miss., June 1, 1964. Photo: Matt Herron. |
This country is bad with its history. Pieces of history that could help us think more clearly about today's movements for social change are often ignored or distorted in popular media or commercial textbooks. This is especially true in the treatment of "nonviolent" resistance in the Civil Rights Movement. Asserting their right to defend themselves when attacked was a tradition that has safeguarded and sustained generations of black people in the United States. Yet this tradition is almost completely absent from the conventional narrative of the Southern civil rights struggle. Organized self-defense in black communities goes back to the aftermath of the Civil War. Continue reading. _____________________________________________________________
"Guns and the Southern Freedom Struggle: What's Missing When We
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Champion the Right to Teach and Learn People's History
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"I am grateful to the Zinn Education Project for keeping the idea
of agency alive. My students are Alaskan Natives, and unfortunately
are familiar with being on the margins of history textbooks. They
become more interested when other groups that share similar struggles
are brought to the forefront in lessons."
----KAREN BERANEK, 8TH GRADE U.S. HISTORY TEACHER, BERING STRAIGHT SCHOOL DISTRICT
 With Banned Books Week (Sept. 21-27) in full swing, we call attention to the recent attempts to ban people's history books and curriculum, and to celebrate the power of learning people's history. ( Read more here.) For Banned Books Week you can make sure more students read banned books and learn the history missing from textbooks. With your donation to the Zinn Education Project, we can equip thousands more classroom teachers to bring people's history to millions of students.
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Students Protest Curriculum Change to Downplay 'Social Strife'
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Hundreds of High Schoolers Walk Out to Protest Conservative Takeover of History Standards
By Zaid Jilani, Alternet.orgAs part of the long-running textbook wars over American school curricula, the Jefferson County Colorado Board of Education moved earlier this month to alter AP U.S. history standards to meet a more right-wing view of the world, emphasizing "patriotism" and the "free enterprise system" and downplaying "social strife." Continue reading.
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Teaching People's History
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Teaching Critical Inquiry with Howard Zinn's
A People's History of the United States
Teacher Mark Kissling wrote "Grappling with Multiple Histories: Teaching Critical Inquiry with Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States" in response to the attack by Mitch Daniels on teaching any work by Zinn in Indiana Public Schools. Kissling concludes, "As Zinn makes clear about his own books, no text ----including all textbooks ----is neutral. The takeaway is that all people ----every single student sitting in the classroom, as well as everyone else outside of it ---- matter in the workings of communities toward peace and justice." Continue reading.
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New HowardZinn.org Website
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Re-release Available
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Inspired by A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People's History of the United States, The People Speak offers readings and performances of letters, diary entries, speeches, and songs from throughout U.S. history. This excellent classroom resource is now available.
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Upcoming Educator Conferences
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Oct. 11 | San Francisco
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Oct. 18 | Portland, Ore.
"Rethinking Our Classrooms, Organizing for Better Schools"
Visit the Rethinking Schools table
Keynote Speaker: Enid Lee, co-editor of Beyond Heroes and Holidays, published by Teaching for Change
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"Dismantling Fronteras through Multicultural Education: Con Comunidad, Cariño y Coraje"
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Nov. 22 | Chicago
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