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In 1932, Patton deployed tanks in Washington DC against 10000+ American WWI Vets protesting in demand for their promised war time bonuses. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonus-army-attacked/ 1932 US Army vs US Veterans https://www.youtube.co

Zinn Ed Project

U.S. Postal Service is often in center of fights for democracy. For exp., the American Anti-Slavery Society launched postal campaign in 1835 to flood South with abolitionist literature. White supremacists

Zinn Ed Project

#tdih 1964 James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, & Andrew Goodman were tortured and murdered by KKK with help from deputy sheriff in Neshoba Cty, Miss. They had investigated burning of a

Eliza Eaton-Stern

ElizaEatonStern

Yesterday I went to Ludlow, CO to scope out a potential excursion for my 8th graders for next year. The plan for excursions in my class is to go to

Zinn Ed Project

"If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one." -- Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, born #tdih 1917 in Montgomery Cty, Miss. Hamer and thousands more Mississippians

🌍$IR G.B.$.🇺🇸

GRE8TBLACKSHARK

WHITE AMERICA,you CANNOT claim to believe in "Liberty,& Justice" for all,when slavery is STILL legal,& Jacob Blake was shot 7 times,unarmed in the back,& Kyle Rittenhouse murdered innocent people,yet was

From someone born and raised and living in California: here js a thread of California being racisthttps://twitter.com/thehill/status/1280511890888613888 The Lemon Grove Incident (1930s): Lemon Grove School District tried to segregate Mexica

C Ver Mar #BlackLivesMatter

This has been low-key obsessing me. And thanks to the @ZinnEdProject I found...https://twitter.com/cvermar/status/1289736963356950528 "We will not make a pretense of being satisfied with the crumbs of citizenship while others enjoy

AmericanStudier

There are many deeply, frustratingly American contexts for the police brutality in MN, 1st against #GeorgeFloyd & then against protesters. But I’m thinking in particular about the frame I'm seeing

The other night, in the middle of a long thread about John Wayne and the #AtomicAgeArmy, I mentioned that the US developed thermonuclear weapons. @CONELRAD6401240 Conelrad posted this morning that

1) This year, 2019, marks an important centennial anniversary in America—but it is one that not only are we not celebrating, it’s also a significant moment most of us aren’t