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And only a practicing democracy since the
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Don’t think you’ll make it that long Cawley if you don’t straighten out the current “administration” near perpetual attempted reboot of the civil war
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June 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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“Christian”Nationalists kinda resurgence
June 27, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Anti-history ed laws require Evers‘ story be stripped of inst’l racism that was focus of his work & led to his murder. (This admin plans to erase his name.)

Young people need to learn MORE, not less, people’s history to analyze current events & shape a more just future. Defend right to #TeachTruth
June 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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We’re having a great time at the @oah.org conference talking with educators about why they choose ZEP. Watch this teaching testimonial from professor Joy Ellison — and if you’re at the conference, come see us at booth 106!

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April 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Learn more about the murder of Archbishop Óscar Romero and find resources for teaching about Central America at the link below.

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March 27, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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On December 2 of that same year, three North American nuns and one layworker were raped, tortured, and killed. But the aid continued. During the 1980s, the U.S. sent an average of $1 million a day, primarily for the military.
March 27, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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This was soon after he had written to U.S. President Jimmy Carter warning that increased U.S. military aid would “undoubtedly sharpen the injustice and the political repression inflicted on the organized people, whose struggle has often been for their most basic human rights.”
March 27, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression." — Archbishop Óscar Romero

The day after this sermon, Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating mass on #TDIH in 1980.
March 27, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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"I would like to make a special appeal to the men of the National Guard, the police and the military. Brothers, you come from our own people. You are killing your own brother peasants. No one has to obey an immoral law.." — Archbishop Óscar Romero
March 27, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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Photo by William Cheney. Source Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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📸: Left to right: Harriet Tubman; Gertie Davis (Tubman’s adopted daughter); Nelson Davis (Tubman’s husband); Lee Cheney; “Pop” Alexander; Walter Green; Sarah Parker (“Blind Auntie” Parker) and Dora Stewart (granddaughter of Tubman’s brother, John Stewart).
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Larson notes that she was “the first American woman to lead an armed raid into enemy territory” as she guided Union troops up the Combahee River in SC to destroy Confederate stockpiles of weapons, food and cotton, and free more than 700 enslaved African Americans.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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In all, says Larson, Tubman conducted about 13 rescues in which she led about 70 people enslaved on the Eastern Shore to freedom in the north, risking her own life and freedom each time. Tubman also served as a nurse, cook, scout and spy for federal forces during the Civil War,
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The successful plot involved Bowley surreptitiously outbidding everyone else and then spiriting away Kessiah and the children before the auctioneer could figure out he had been tricked.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Tubman traveled to Baltimore and worked with Kessiah’s husband, a freed man named John Bowley, on a plan to liberate Kessiah and the children.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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While in Philadelphia, Tubman learned that her niece, Kessiah Jolley, and Kessiah’s two young children, James Alfred and Araminta, were to be auctioned off at the Cambridge, Maryland courthouse.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Tubman, who had escaped slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in Sept. 1849, was living “nominally free” in Philadelphia, where she worked as a domestic and a cook but had to guard against slaveholder efforts to retrieve their so-called property from northern states
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Tubman, perhaps the most famous conductor for the Underground Railroad, engineered her first rescue mission in December of 1850. The exact date is unknown.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Pvt. Carlos Snodgrass, Pvt. Ira B. Davis, Pvt. James Divine, Pvt. Frank Johnson, Pvt. Rosley W. Young, and Pvt. Pat MacWharter.

On November 13, 2023, the Army Board for Correction of Military Records overturned the convictions of the 110 Black soldiers.
December 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The 13 soldiers hanged on December 11 were: Sgt. William C. Nesbitt, Corp. Larsen J. Brown, Corp. James Wheatley, Corp. Jesse Moore, Corp. Charles W. Baltimore, Pvt. William Brackenridge, Pvt. Thomas C. Hawkins,
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