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Person with glasses and a cap holding a colorful Teach Vote Resist Organize poster at an outdoor rally. Sign in background days No Faux King Way
A high school U.S. history teacher defends the right to #TeachTruth and the #FreedomtoLearn with a "Teach, Vote, Resist, Organize" poster.
Riverside, California #NoKings rally
(Request a free copy of the poster for #MayDay here: www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...)
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We are the future ancestors. with photos of Malcolm X, Marsha P. Johnson, Yuri Kochiyama, Ella Baker, and Emma Tenayuca.
We are the future ancestors. What role will you play in history to shape a just future for the next 250 years? #TeachTruth #America250
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Teach Truth, Freedom Dream the Future #TeachTruth #America250
Looking for #NoKings sign ideas for today?
Here are a few.
Defend the #FreedomtoLearn and #TeachTruth
Email us your photos (zep@zinnedproject.org) or tag them #TeachTruth 🧵
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I want to expose my students to new perspectives that help them become critical thinkers. — Sunnyvale, California I want to teach my students about U.S. imperialism as our situation grows more dire. — Turner Falls, Massachusetts I used ZEP lessons years ago, and now using them again, they are just as relevant and help uncover important issues around power, privilege, identity, intersectionality, and internalized racism. — Brooklyn, New York
#FridayReport: This week 158 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Sunnyvale, CA; Denver, CO; Athens, GA; Turner Falls, MA; Otsego, MN; Brooklyn, NY; Arlington, TX; Spanish Fork, UT; Alexandria and Keezletown, VA; & many more cities.
#TeachTruth
Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
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Great to see the examples of resistance on post below, including "In 1964, Black sharecroppers organized the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and cracked open a political system that had used violence and terror to shut them out" with link to article at ZEP to learn more. #TeachTruth
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”Our choice is to follow the politics of the going order . . . or else to promote those human values of peace, equality, and justice, which our present society denies.”
— Howard Zinn, 1977
The choice is ours. Make #TeachTruth visible at #NoKings. Be seen.
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I’m interested in teaching your lesson on the Congo. — Cambridge, Massachusetts What a great resource! I learned from ZEP resources when I was in high school! — Dayton, Maine I’ve been using teaching materials from this amazing organization for a long time. — Oakland, California I’ve always been hungry for this type of social justice curriculum, and I am so happy that a colleague recommended this to me! — Midland, Michigan
#Fridayreport: This week 163 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from El Monte and Oakland, CA; Hamden, CT; Dayton, ME; Cambridge and Dorchester, MA; Midland, MI; Astoria and Ithaca, NY; Greensboro, NC; & many more cities.
#TeachTruth
Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
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As the US-Israeli war against the people of Iran continues, we need to teach outside the textbook.
On @democracynow.org, hear Vali Nasr explain how “Iran is playing a long game.”
Watch: www.democracynow.org/2026/3/19/va...
Teaching resources:
www.zinnedproject.org/news/exposin...
#TeachTruth
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Prep to bring #TeachTruth campaign to #NoKings, #MayDay, #Pride, #Juneteenth, a local library, statehouse, farmers market, and more.
Join us for an engaging and informative one-hour, online Prep Session on March 23 at 7pm ET. RSVP below.
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On March 23 get ready (virtually) to #TeachTruth about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with our @zinnedproject.bsky.social .
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For the resources on the Vietnam War. — Las Vegas, Nevada I’m interested in climate resources. — Fair Lawn, New Jersey I would love more ideas for teaching Reconstruction! — Littleton, Colorado I was looking up ways to teach about the Red Scare, and the activity I saw here is the most compelling! I’m excited to try it out. — Bronx, New York
#FridayReport: This week 157 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Littleton, CO; Las Vegas, NV; Fair Lawn, NJ; Bronx, NY; Fort Worth, TX; Ranchester, WY; & many more cities.
#TeachTruth
Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
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The Confederate Constitution, adopted #tdih 1861, protected slavery, stating “No law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.”
Yet people still claim the Civil War wasn’t about slavery.
Teach outside the textbook. #TeachTruth
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NJ high school teacher & ZEP Prentiss Charney Fellow T. J. Whitaker co-leads a Model Gary Convention (like Model U.N.) each year for students who spend months researching & prepping their platforms. #TeachTruth
Read about it in @rethinkingschools.bsky.social ⬇️
rethinkingschools.org/articles/stu...
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I want to be a better teacher. — Chula Vista, California I would love to use the lessons for How the Word Is Passed. — Detroit, Michigan I am currently teaching a unit on Palestine and Israel, and I would love to learn from the educators here who have developed curriculum on this topic. — Chicago, Illinois To bridge the gap between traditional curricula and the complex, honest narratives that shape our world. Elementary students are capable of — and deserve — an education that moves beyond mythology to explore real history. — Arvin, California
#Fridayreport
This week 206 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Arvin, Chula Vista, San Jose, and San Rafael, CA; Chicago, IL; Huntertown, IN; Detroit, MI; Canaan, NH; & many more cities.
#TeachTruth
Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
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Text on blue background: Laws across the country are making criminals out of educators who teach this history. #TeachTruth
Many legislatures & the president have tried to criminalize teaching honestly. They ban "divisive concepts," including that U.S. is "fundamentally or systematically racist."
Under those EO's & laws, can teachers invite students to read & analyze Dred Scott ruling by U.S. Supreme Court? #TeachTruth
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For more resources to #TeachTruth about the American Revolution on this 250th anniversary, check out @msmagazine.com's Feminist 250 initiative.
msmagazine.com/feminist-250/
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Wonderful article by our colleague Greg Wickenkamp about rural educators who, despite censorship campaigns and laws, "take pains to present history in all its complexity, encouraging students to develop their own informed stances through critical thinking." ⬇️ #TeachTruth
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#tdih 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" #TeachTruth
Read ⬇️
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#tdih 1955
"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat . . . Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another, and I could not move. — Claudette Colvin, #TeachTruth ⬇️🧵
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Picture of green feather with text around edge GREEN FEATHER MOVEMENT. More info: zinnedproject.org | union bug
In response to current attempts to ban books & people's history lessons, we offer Green Feather stickers to invite discussions about need to resist censorship in schools today.
Scroll to request & donation form on this page:
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/gr...
#TeachTruth #TeachOutsideTextbook
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Slide 1 I love this stuff. A colleague recommended it to me. — Cincinnati, Ohio I teach a course on suppressed history and these materials seem helpful. — Round Rock, Texas I am in a Teaching Palestine book group and want more support and resources. — Northampton, Massachusetts I’m looking for lessons and resources that help middle school students think critically about race, class, and the law, and to help them envision a better future. — Chicago, Illinois
#FridayReport
This week 218 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Berthoud, CO; Farmington, CT; North Miami, FL; Senoia, GA; Chicago, IL; Northampton, MA; Cincinnati, OH; Memphis, TN; Round Rock, TX; Lake Forest Park & many more.
#TeachTruth
Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
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All those references to 1776?
That is why we have a campaign to #TeachTruth about the American Revolution on this 250th anniversary.
Free lessons, questions for reflection, articles, book & film recommendations, & more.
Sign up ⬇️ Add your state to the map.
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Shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth? -- quote by Du Bois and headshot in black and white
"And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?" -- W. E. B. Du Bois in "Black Reconstruction"
#TeachTruth #FreedomtoLearn
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#BlackHistoryMonth #TeachTruth
With @zinnedproject.bsky.social
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'5 free resources for teaching Black history'
🖋 Alvin Buyinza | Word In Black
📸 Photo from Canva
#stlamerican #stlnews #stlouis #BlackHistory #EducationEquity #TeachTruth #WordInBlack
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#tdih 1942 Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt authorized WWII incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent.
About 122,000 people sent to prison camps.
Many of their homes, businesses, and farms were confiscated.
#TeachTruth ⬇️
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Rest in power, Rev. Jackson
#BlackHistoryMonth #TeachTruth
So many lessons to learn from Rev. Jesse Jackson's words AND his years of on the ground organizing, in interracial coalitions, to challenge racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ, poverty, unfair labor, militarism, mass incarceration, & more.
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