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Presented by the Zinn Education Project
A Collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change
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When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction
By Adam Sanchez
Every day seems to bring new horrors as the U.S. president's racist rhetoric and policies have provided an increasingly encouraging environment for attacks on Black people and other communities of color. In moments like these, it's worth remembering a time in U.S. history when Black lives mattered. Reconstruction, the era immediately following the Civil War and emancipation, is full of stories that help us see the possibility of a future defined by racial equity. Though often overlooked in classrooms across the country, Reconstruction was a period where the impossible suddenly became possible. Continue reading.
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"When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction" is the newest article
in the Zinn Education Project series,
If We Knew Our History
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Related Resources
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Reconstructing the South:
A Role Play
By Bill Bigelow.
This role play engages students in thinking about what freedpeople
needed in order to
achieve ---- and sustain ---- real freedom following the Civil War.
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Recommended lessons, teaching guides, books, and films.
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