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On this Veterans Day weekend, read about African American veterans of U.S. wars abroad who, upon their return home, were murdered in fight for democracy and human rights in the United States. #teachoutsidetextbook https://t.co/byDi5GExkQ
#tdih Veterans Day. Read about African American veterans who fought in various wars and upon their return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy and human rights. Also resources to teach about vets organizing against war. #teachoutsidetextbook https://t.co/vGrOjaMNbF
Every Veterans Day I think of the 179,000 Black soldiers who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War & how the war wouldn’t have been won without them.
I can never begin to fathom what it was like to quite literary fight a war over whether or not you would remain enslaved.
Almost a 100 years before Rosa Parks refused her seat on the bus Elizabeth Jennings sued the Third Avenue Railroad System in Brooklyn for racial discrimination and won!
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Bridget “Biddy” Mason petitioned the California court for her freedom in 1856. She was granted her freedom and the freedom of her 3 daughters. Bridget was the first black woman to own land… https://t.co/vEerGA6iqr
In the early nineteenth century Aletha Turner sold produce from her own garden to purchase her freedom for $1,400 dollars and the freedom of others in Washington D.C. over a 25 year… https://t.co/50ZmAqRqZj
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The Underground Railroad ran south as well as north. Researchers estimate 5,000 to 10,000 people escaped into Mexico, from Texas [as well as North… https://t.co/EvFQGmLVrL
Marsha P. Johnson was a pioneer at the young age of 23 on the front lines of the Gay Liberation movement. Marsha played a key role in the Stonewall Riots as well co-founded the Street… https://t.co/tDQ3XNAIeW
Help us expand the narrative of the United States history by acknowledging the countless contributions of Black Americans. Learn more about who they are at https://t.co/smTEdJSBxj.… https://t.co/UXqvV969cK
Thank You Tees Co-Founder Veronica N. Chapman rocking her Ida B. Wells #ThankYouTees at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Learn more about the work and life of Ida B. Wells at… https://t.co/Rj9oOtGxHf
We Thank You Ida B. Wells for your courage and activism. Learn more about the work of Ida B. Wells at https://t.co/SuQecClswh. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 Purchase your ThankYou Ida B. Wells Tees today. Link… https://t.co/qwj6iambNa
Help us expand the narrative of the United States history by acknowledging the countless contributions of Black Americans. Learn more about who they are at https://t.co/smTEdJSBxj.… https://t.co/OygljNpQsN
Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes that Native people are the first inhabitants of the Americas, including the lands that later became the United States of America. And it urges Americans… https://t.co/ER3PuXqU12
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Phillis Wheatley during the late 18th century was kidnapped from West Africa and enslaved in Boston. She became… https://t.co/gYirJ2lM4d