Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights - Zinn Education Project
To help students respond to the threats to voter suppression, teach about the long history of the fight for voting rights.| Zinn Education Project
Resources for teaching a people's history of the American Revolution. The post Teaching the American Revolution appeared first on Zinn Education Project.| Zinn Education Project
Resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day and all year to teach outside the textbook. The post Indigenous Peoples’ Day appeared first on Zinn Education Project.| Zinn Education Project
Scholar Joshua Clark Jackson will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series. The post Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back appeared first on Zinn Education Project.| Zinn Education Project
To help students respond to the threats to voter suppression, teach about the long history of the fight for voting rights.| Zinn Education Project
Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities.| Zinn Education Project
Philando Castile, an African American, was shot to death by a police officer at a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Castile had worked as a nutritional supervisor at an elementary school.| Zinn Education Project
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Black educator, baseball player, and civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto was murdered by a white supremacist on election day.| Zinn Education Project
Ida B. Wells stood up to injustice by refusing to change seats on a segregated Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad train, leading to a legal battle over racially discriminatory laws.| Zinn Education Project
In protest of Jim Crow discrimination on public transportation, Frederick Douglass and his friend, white politician James N. Buffum, boarded a Eastern Railroad Company train, in a first class car and were promptly ejected from the train.| Zinn Education Project
Schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings Graham successfully challenged racist streetcar policies in New York City.| Zinn Education Project
The Montgomery Bus Boycott is one of the most powerful examples of organizing and social change in U.S. history.| Zinn Education Project
Book — Non-fiction. By Mia Bay. 2021. 400 pages. From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, this book explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice.| Zinn Education Project
Interactive activity introduces students to the history and often untold story of the U.S.-Mexico War. Roles available in Spanish.| Zinn Education Project
In this role play, students explore the challenges and perspectives of climate refugees forced from their homes devastated by climate change.| Zinn Education Project
Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow. 2006. 160 pages. Rethinking Schools. Lessons for teaching about the history of U.S.–Mexico relations and current border and immigration issues.| Zinn Education Project
Uprising by enslaved people in South Carolina.| Zinn Education Project
After decades of organizing and strategic efforts by parents, teachers, lawyers, and more — the U.S. Supreme Court issued the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education on school segregation.| Zinn Education Project
David Walker published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, one of the most important documents of the 19th century.| Zinn Education Project
Make visible the history that we are defending the right to teach with mini-lessons. Participants benefit from becoming informed about key issues and inspired to take action.| Zinn Education Project
Book — Non-fiction. By Jarvis R. Givens. 2021. 320 pages. Details the long assault on Black education that occurred from the period of enslavement through the life of one of the founders of the Black studies tradition, Carter G. Woodson.| Zinn Education Project
After five years of coordinating national Teach Truth Days of Action, the Zinn Education Project is helping usher the movement into a new phase — deepening its reach by embedding the fight for honest education in year-round social justice organizing … The post A New Chapter in the Teach Truth Movement appeared first on Zinn Education Project.| Zinn Education Project
After five years of coordinating national Teach Truth Days of Action, the Zinn Education Project is helping usher the movement into a new phase — deepening its reach by embedding the fight for honest education in year-round social justice organizing … The post A New Chapter in the Teach Truth Movement appeared first on Zinn Education Project.| Zinn Education Project
For Latinx (also called Latine) Heritage Month, we offer free lessons and recommendations for books and films. The post Latinx Heritage Month: Teach Outside the Textbook appeared first on Zinn Education Project.| Zinn Education Project
Zinn Education Project dinner reception at the newly expanded African American Civil War Museum on Saturday, December 6 from 6:30pm – 10:00pm. The post Invitation: Dinner Reception in D.C. appeared first on Zinn Education Project.| Zinn Education Project
In hundreds of classrooms on Constitution Day, students examined who was invited to write the Constitution (and who was excluded) and what rights are included — and which are left out. Here are their stories. The post Teach Truth on Constitution Day: What Did Students Learn? appeared first on Zinn Education Project.| Zinn Education Project
Historian Ned Blackhawk will discusses will discuss the Indigenous origins of the American Revolution, drawing from his book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.| Zinn Education Project
The constitutional climate case Juliana v. United States was filed by 21 youth against the U.S. government. The defendants said that the government's policies are causing catastrophic climate change and constitute a violation of their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property.| Zinn Education Project
Lessons, books, articles, films, and upcoming events on labor history.| Zinn Education Project
Article. By Howard Zinn. 1976. Essay urging readers to rethink Memorial Day, who we honor, and what resources we prioritize.| Zinn Education Project
Article. By David W. Blight. 2011. The people's history of Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina during Reconstruction.| Zinn Education Project
A mixer/mystery activity on Zionism, anti-Zionism, peasant resistance, the Great War, the British Mandate, and more.| Zinn Education Project
The lesson shows how government policies segregated every major city in the United States with dire consequences for African Americans.| Zinn Education Project
A lesson based on colonial law helps students understand the origins of racism in the United States and who benefits.| Zinn Education Project
Through examining FBI documents, students learn the scope of the FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign to spy on, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt all corners of the Black Freedom Movement.| Zinn Education Project
This lesson shows students how to use the Black Panther Party's 10-Point Program to assess issues in their own communities.| Zinn Education Project
Book offers for educators who share stories about teaching any of the lessons at the Zinn Education Project.| Zinn Education Project
We offer a new timeline of the climate crisis that traces its roots from European colonial expansion and racial capitalism to present-day fossil fuel industry and government projects that exploit and destroy the Earth in the name of maximum profit. It also emphasizes moments and movements of resistance and activism that inform climate justice work today.| Zinn Education Project
This lesson helps students understand the complicated factors involved in who or what is to blame for the effects of the climate crisis.| Zinn Education Project
In this activity, students take on the role of activist-experts to improve upon a Congressional bill for reparations for Black people.| Zinn Education Project
Book — Non-fiction. By Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. 2025. 286 pages. Táíwò’s take on reparations and distributive justice has wide implications for views of justice, racism, the legacy of colonialism, and climate change policy.| Zinn Education Project
Thank you to the staff of the Zinn Education Project for trusting and supporting educators and students, and for providing resources to teach truth.| Zinn Education Project
Rosa Parks is one of the most well-known U.S. women of the 20th century and yet much of what has been taught about her is narrow, limited, and at times wrong. This is changing thanks to the release in 2021 of the young adult book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and a new film with the same title — both based on the Parks’ biography by Jeanne Theoharis.| Zinn Education Project
Book — Non-fiction. By Jeanne Theoharis. 2013. 320 pages. A revealing window into Rosa Parks’ politics and years of activism.| Zinn Education Project
How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America| Zinn Education Project
Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.| Zinn Education Project
Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.| Zinn Education Project
As the climate crisis accelerates, our Teach Climate Justice resources — free lessons, articles, a climate crisis timeline, and more — are becoming more and more valuable in the classroom.| Zinn Education Project
While education is central to the fascist agenda, it is not getting adequate attention from progressive forces. You can help shine a light on education by joining the campaign to Teach Truth.| Zinn Education Project
Thanks to generous donors, the Zinn Education Project gave 450 copies of Eve Ewing’s Original Sins to educators around the country.| Zinn Education Project
With the airwaves full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and I.C.E. raids in countless communities, we provide lessons, teaching guides, and other recommended resources for teaching honestly and critically about immigration.| Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activity. By Jesse Hagopian. 2025. 40 pages. This lesson explores major examples of laws passed to suppress Black education in the wake of major victories for the Black Freedom Struggle, highlighting the historical context and motivations behind these legislative efforts.| Zinn Education Project
This mixer activity introduces students to the struggle of residents to access safe water for drinking, cooking, and bathing.| Zinn Education Project
On this Memorial Day weekend, we feature two articles: one about the early origins of the holiday, led by African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina after the Civil War, and the second by Howard Zinn urging us to "destroy the weapons of death that . . . threaten our children and grandchildren."| Zinn Education Project
For the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action, Seven Stories Press, Haymarket Books, and One Signal Publishers have donated books that address the censorship of people's history.| Zinn Education Project
Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.| Zinn Education Project
One way to engage the community in defending the right to learn is with a local history walking tour. Along the way, participants learn about history they wish they had learned in school.| Zinn Education Project
On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, help students think critically about the origins and consequences of the U.S. war in Vietnam.| Zinn Education Project
As state legislatures are passing laws to ban truthful teaching, more and more teachers continue to register at the Zinn Education Project. These numbers reflect a powerful countercurrent — one where teachers, students, and families seek out resources that center justice, people’s history, and critical thinking.| Zinn Education Project
Whether it is Earth Day or any other day of the year, we offer lessons and resources to help students grasp the enormity of the environmental crisis, but also find paths to make a difference, to challenge the profit-first, fossil fuel-forever priorities of the people temporarily running this country.| Zinn Education Project
Historian Jeanne Theoharis returns to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.| Zinn Education Project
Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian talked to activist scholars Bettina Aptheker and Robert Cohen about their books, the Free Speech Movement (FSM), and current threats to free speech.| Zinn Education Project
Book — Non-fiction. 2025. By Jeanne Theoharis. 400 pages. Illustrates how King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago — outside Dixie — was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice.| Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups each year. Applications are open now for the 2024-2025 school year.| Zinn Education Project
Dozens of downloadable teaching activities, books, films, and websites that you can explore by theme.| Zinn Education Project
Book — Non-fiction. By Clint Smith. 2021. 336 pages. An examination of how monuments and landmarks represent — and misrepresent — the central role of slavery in U.S. history and its legacy today.| Zinn Education Project
Historian Jeanne Theoharis discussed her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.| Zinn Education Project
Historians Jarvis Givens and Imani Perry discussed the Black Teacher Archive, a digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs). This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.| Zinn Education Project
We invite educators, students, parents, and community members to host a mini-lesson, rally at a historic site, history walking tour, information table, or other event to defend the right to #TeachTruth.| Zinn Education Project
We offer this #TeachTruthSyllabus as a gesture of defiance and education. The Right would be happy to obfuscate reality. We, on the other hand, want to probe beneath the surface — so we can teach the truth about our past and present.| Zinn Education Project
Educators are teaching in perilous times. We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires — against the 2020 uprising for Black lives, when tens of millions built a multiracial movement against systemic racism.| Zinn Education Project
Students meet targets of government harassment and repression to analyze why disparate individuals might have become government targets.| Zinn Education Project
Students read about sites of memory from Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed and imagine how to commemorate what occurred there.| Zinn Education Project
Historian Mia Bay discussed her book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, which explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.| Zinn Education Project
Remote teaching materials are available for the teaching activities listed below. You can find links to these materials by downloading each lesson and scrolling down to the final sheet. You will be asked to make a copy of the documents, which will allow you to edit your own copies freely and share them with your students. This list will be updated as we convert and share more lesson materials as Google Docs. Please read Ursula Wolfe-Rocca’s guide Teaching ZEP Lessons Remotely: Recommitting ...| Zinn Education Project
Asks students to determine who is responsible for the death of millions of Taínos on the island of Hispaniola in the late 15th century.| Zinn Education Project
Educator Jesse Hagopian discussed his book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.| Zinn Education Project
In this lesson, students think about what freedpeople needed in order to achieve and sustain real freedom following the Civil War.| Zinn Education Project
Students analyze who is to blame for the illegal mass deportations of Mexican Americans and immigrants during the Great Depression.| Zinn Education Project
In this lesson, students learn about the colonial history of Congo, debate responsibility for crimes against humanity, and investigate the connection, past and present, between the exploitation of natural resources and violence.| Zinn Education Project
Reconstruction, the era immediately following the Civil War and emancipation, is full of stories that help us see the possibility of a future defined by racial equity.| Zinn Education Project
Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom from slavery in the United States. Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth.| Zinn Education Project
Historian Julius B. Fleming Jr. joined educator Jessica Rucker to discuss his book, Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.| Zinn Education Project
Award-winning musicologist and music historian Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. discussed his book Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present as part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.| Zinn Education Project
Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò joined Cierra Kaler-Jones and Jesse Hagopian to discuss his book, Reconsidering Reparations. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.| Zinn Education Project
