#TeachTruth Webinar
An action with the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Truth Pledge Days of Action
Recorded on Saturday, August 28, 2021, at 11AM EDT / 10AM CDT
Moderator:
Kelly Therese Pollock, Host of Unsung History & Two Broads Talking Politics
Panel:
Dr. Candace Cunningham, Assistant Professor, History, Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor, History, The Ohio State University
Sari Beth Rosenberg, Award-winning U.S. History teacher, writer, host, & public speaker
Dr. Yohuru Williams, Founding Director, Racial Justice Initiative, University of St. Thomas
Resources
Zinn Ed Project and Learning for Justice:
“What Critical Race Theory Is and What it Means for Teachers,” by Robert Kim, via Learning for Justice
Audio:
Teaching Hard History Podcast with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Great Figures of the Civil Rights Movement Audible Series with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Unsung History Podcast with Kelly Therese Pollock
Video:
PBS NewsHour Extra with Sari Beth Rosenberg
“Why We Must Confront the Painful Parts of US History,” TEDx talk by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
“Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges on why racism is a ‘grown-up disease,’” PBS NewsHour
Primary Sources:
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852
“Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops” by Susie King Taylor, 1902
Freedom on the Move: Rediscovering The Stories Of Self-Liberating People. A database of fugitives from American Slavery, Cornell University.
Letter to Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker, August 19, 1791
Letter From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker, August 30, 1791
"Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases,” by Ida B. Wells, 1892
Secondary Sources:
“Hell Is Popping Here in South Carolina”: Orangeburg County Black Teachers and Their Community in the Immediate Post-Brown Era. by Dr. Candace Cunningham. History of Education Quarterly, 61(1), 35-62. doi:10.1017/heq.2020.66
Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, Edited by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party, Edited by Dr. Yohuru Williams
Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement by Dr. Yohuru Williams
Black Politics / White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven by Dr. Yohuru Williams
A Field Guide to White Supremacy Paperback, Edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramon A. Gutierrez
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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