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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. You can plan a virtual event or gathering at a historic site, bookstore, famers’ market, or other public location. Or march to a local civic building.

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Teach Truth Day of Action

Zinn Education Project

This year many teachers and students are being attacked for speaking truthfully about Palestinians’ human rights. Find an event near you and show up Go to a historic site and take a photo with a Teach Truth sign that you make or download. Mary Beth Tinker, Tinker v. Des Moines plaintiff, addresses the need to defend “U.S.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

Bob Henson High School Social Studies Teacher, Villa Hills, Kentucky In my capacity as a secondary history educator, I strategically incorporated a Democracy Now! It is a powerful lesson that gets to the humanity of the enslaved and helps students really engage with the subject. invasion in 2002.

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