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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

In Pasadena, Maryland, organizers invited people to a banned books “photo booth” at a local library. For your event, school, library, office: print this poster. Attendees will be welcomed to place their book on the capitol steps and at the end of the event, anyone who brings a book can pick a new one!

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Donate so that we can continue to organize events like these and defend the right of teachers across the United States to teach peoples history. Host an information table at a public site (such as a library, bookstore, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. Sign up today. The group can be any size.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The teachers learned about the Tougaloo Nine , a group of students from historically black Tougaloo College in Jackson, who staged read-ins at the white-only Jackson Municipal Library in 1961. After the state overhauled its standards, the group called it a leader in civil rights instruction. It changed me as an individual,” she said.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

She argues, in line with the international human rights position, that children are citizens, too, and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Collins Elementary School inhabits a single-story brick building with a “little free library” in the front yard and a “discovery garden” in the back. And we can say yes.”.

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At Moms for Liberty’s national summit, a singular focus on anti-trans issues

The Hechinger Report

Memorial Library in downtown Washington. Meg Simons, digital strategy manager at the progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, said that the strong showing of protestors in Philadelphia so motivated many older members of her 40-year-old organization that they started Grandparents For Truth to counter Moms for Liberty.

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