zep header
Zinn Education Project News
Bring the New ZEP Organizer to Your City!
   
One of our Zinn Education Project goals for 2018 is to offer workshops that help teachers better use our people's history resources and to knit together a face-to-face network of social justice teachers.
 
We are accepting requests from sites that would like to convene people's history educators for a workshop, led by Adam Sanchez, our full-time teacher organizer and curriculum writer. Adam is a  Rethinking Schools editor and high school social studies teacher. He has written numerous articles, including the piece that launched the Zinn Education Project's Teach Reconstruction campaign, titled " When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction."
 
On the workshop request form we indicate a range of people's history topics Adam can address. Our focus this school year is on the untold story of Reconstruction as a vital example of the struggle for interracial democracy, so that will be our priority when we need to make choices.
  
 
 
Teaching Outside the Textbook about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Text of speech by Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. on the Vietnam War, followed
by three teaching ideas.


Derrick Alridge critiques the textbook representation of King as messiah, embodiment of the Civil Rights Movement, and a moderate.
Film clip of a Michael Ealy's dramatic reading of Dr. Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam" (1967) speech.



The exclusion of Blacks and other people of color from voting is still a live issue. Here are 10 points to keep in mind about Selma's civil rights history. By Emilye Crosby.
 
Free Book Offer
Tell Us Your Classroom Story,  
Get a Free Book
We want to hear about your use of the lesson, " Reconstructing the South: A Role Play." In appreciation for your time, we will send you a free copy of A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner.

Read some of the  comments we have received from teachers  across the country.

 
 
Bring People's History Across the Country
Help bring people_s history to all 50 states -- donate today_
 
Zinn Education Project
The goal of the Zinn Education Project is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history.
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Watch us on YouTube
See us on Instagram
Donate to the Zinn Education Project
© 2018 The Zinn Education Project, a collaboration of
Rethinking Schools logo
and
tfclogo
.