Civil Rights and Schools: From Little Rock to NYC This workshop focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 and in Harlem in 1958. This event will be in-person.

NYC teachers and friends of same - please share this great learning opportunity. A day at the NY Historical Society to invigorate and expand how you teach Civil Rights Movement history. #nyc #nyccivilrightshistory #maemallory #harlem9

Have 4 mins? Watch Brian Jones do a close reading of this revealing text.

And think about our public discourse about protest, broadly, today.

#nyccivilrightshistory

Must have been because the #nyccivilrightshistory website was my @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social course assignment this week. My students are certainly unique, @ansleyerickson.bsky.social!

New York City Civil Rights History Project A teaching guide to the history of NYC schools

Somewhere in the last week we hit 10,000 unique users at the #nyccivilrightshistory Project.

These are histories that students, and we all, need to keep front of mind right now. People have worked hard to make the world better. We can learn from them.
nyccivilrightshistory.org

SLJ Reviews the New York City Civil Rights History Project Database A thoughtfully curated digital resource, rich with fully vetted and accessible materials aims to uncover how Black and Latinx women and disabled New Yorkers were central to the fight for educational j...

Thanks to School Library Journal for reviewing our #nyccivilrightshistory work!

www.slj.com/story/slj-re...

Thanks for this thread and sharing our #nyccivilrightshistory work!

New York City Civil Rights History Project A teaching guide to the history of NYC schools

A team of scholars, activists, students, teachers, and more launched #nyccivilrightshistory a year ago. We want as many ppl as possible to see how NY'ers fought racism & ableism in schools & for educational justice.

Always timely.

#publichistory #histed 🗃️ #edusky

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Racism and Resistance in the North During the Civil Rights Movement Educator Brian Jones talked about the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the North and ways that those stories can be included in the curriculum. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project...

Teachers K-onward, here's the Zinn Education Project roundup of great resources and snippets from Brian Jones' excellent presentation on the Civil Rights Movement in the North, drawing on materials from the #nyccivilrightshistory project. Enjoy!

www.zinnedproject.org/news/racism-...

Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Classes Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.

So pleased that #NYCCivilRightsHistory work will be featured in this Zinn Education Project event with Brian Jones. Mark your calendars!

www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-b...

Kaliris Salas-Ramirez reads “We’d Rather Go to Jail” Kaliris Salas-Ramirez does a close reading of “We’d Rather Go to Jail”

Our document-of-the-day for Day 29 of #BlackHistoryMonth at #nyccivilrightshistory: parent activist Kaliris Salas-Ramirez reflects on how Mae Mallory and the "Harlem Nine" of 1958 matter for *right now.*

www.nyccivilrightshistory.org/teaching-res...

Why the School Boycott?

Back with another document-of-the-day from #nyccivilrightshistory for #bhm24!

Day 26 - New Yorkers organize a massive boycott against segregated schooling. Read why here:

www.nyccivilrightshistory.org/topics/boyco...

Denise Oliver

Denise Oliver was a leading member of the Young Lords Party, and her activism was informed by her experiences of racism in NYC schools.

Document-of-the-day for #BlackHistoryMonth day 22 from
#nyccivilrightshistory #histed 🗃️

The Black Panthers A teaching guide to the history of NYC schools

Document-of-the-day for #BlackHistoryMonth day 19

1) Harlem had a Black Panther Party chapter.
2) Education was a major focus of their work.

Read more via #nyccivilrightshistory

www.nyccivilrightshistory.org/topics/boyco...

🗃️ #histed #harlem

Willie Mae Goodman Interview

Document-of-the-month for Day 17 of #BlackHistoryMonth via #NYCCivilRightsHistory project.

Wilie Mae Goodman - who has been fighting for her daughter Marguerite her whole life - describes her activism for Disabled children at #Willowbrook and beyond.

www.nyccivilrightshistory.org/topics/black...

Girls Jumping Double Dutch

Good morning! Here's an energetic and joyful document-of-the-day for #BlackHistoryMonth Day 16

Black girls jump Double Dutch in 1980s New York City, part of #NYCCivilRightsHistory collection on "Joyful Struggle."

www.nyccivilrightshistory.org/topics/joyfu...

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A Proposal for an Independent Board of Education in Harlem

Document-of-the-day from #nyccivilrightshistory for Black History Month Day 15 🗃️

Harlem's chapter of the Congress on Racial Equality proposed an "Independent Board of Education" for Harlem schools - after decades of neglect of Black students by NYC.

nyccivilrightshistory.org/topics/who-g...

Jansen Must Go! Harlem residents like Ella Baker and Mae Mallory, alongside other parents and community members in Brooklyn and in Jamaica, Queens, pushed the New York City Board of Education to integrate their schoo...

NYC parent organizers definitely did *NOT* send Superintendent William Jansen a #Valentine...

Document-of-the-day for #BlackHistoryMonth day 14 from #NYCCivilRightsHistory

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#nyc #histed 🗃️

Interview with Thomas Samuels

Document-of-the-day for #BlackHistoryMonth Day 13 from #nyccivilrightshistory

Thomas Samuels recalls meeting with other Deaf teens to sign, when their schools still prohibited using American Sign Language.

www.nyccivilrightshistory.org/topics/seeki...

#histed #disability #NYC

Check Your School! Ella Baker was an influential organizer in New York City struggles against segregated schools, police brutality, voting restrictions, and more.

Document-of-the-day from #nyccivilrightshistory.

You might know Ella Baker's southern work, but she was a key organizer in struggles for educational justice in 1940s/50s NYC too.

#BlackHistoryMonth day 12. www.nyccivilrightshistory.org

Want to see something both beautiful and powerful on this Day 11 of #BlackHistoryMonth?

Watch Kadiatou Tubman read and thinks aloud about *The Brownie's Book,* via #NYCCivilRightsHistory, for today's Document-of-the-Day from www.nyccivilrightshistory.org

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We’d Rather Go To Jail Striking School Moms Say… We’d Rather Go To Jail": Defy Court’s Order in School Boycott by Sara Slack New York Amsterdam News (1943-1961); Dec 13, 1958; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News pg. 1 Four Negro mothers were arranging their affairs and putting their homes in order Tuesday in preparation for going to jail rather than send their children to threee Harlem junior high schools as they have been ordered to do by a Domestic Relations Court judge. We will go to jail and rot there, if necessary, but our children will not go to Jr. High Schools 136, 139 or 120." Mrs. Viola Waddy of 1980 Park Avenue, spokesman for the four mothers told the Amsterdam News.

Document-of-the-day from #nyccivilrightshistory in honor of #BlackHistoryMonth Day 10:

Mae Mallory and other Black mothers in Harlem risk imprisonment to protest their children's segregated and unequal Harlem junior high schools, 1958.

nyccivilrightshistory.org/topics/black...

Color painting of two Black women, both wearing light-colored shirts, leaning in to one another and holding an open book in front of them. The woman on the left leans her chin on her hand.

Document of the day from #nyccivilrightshistory for #BlackHistoryMonth.

Two Public School Teachers by Winhold Reiss for the 1925 Survey Graphic issue on Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro.

Learn more about their activism for educational justice at
nyccivilrightshistory.org/topics/black... 🗃️ #histed

Uncovering NYC’s Hidden History with the Civil Rights History Project A collaboration with TC’s Center for History and Education provides high-quality teaching materials to whomever needs them

Thanks to Teachers College for profiling our NYC Civil Rights History Project. We're excited about this work for teachers, students, and anyone who wants to learn about how New Yorkers have fought for educational justice. #nyccivilrightshistory

www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...

Willie Mae Goodman's fight was for life over death - for her daughter, against how others saw her. Hear her tell part of her own story here. #nyccivilrightshistory #disability #BlackLatinaWomenEdActivism
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