The Zinn Education Project will offer workshops and a booth with introductions to people's history lessons at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference (NCSS) in Chicago on November 30 - December 2, 2018. Mark your calendars and join us for a people's history weekend.

Our booth is always a lively place to meet others from across the country who are teaching outside the textbook.

We are pleased to announce that Katie Orr has joined the Zinn Education Project staff as Communications Manager, filling the position held by founding project staff member Lauren Cooper for the past 10 years.

Katie is responsible for press inquiries, public outreach campaigns, social media, website updates, print materials, conference exhibits, project planning, materials production, program administration, and more.

Before joining the Zinn Education Project, Katie was a National Park Service historian working to promote inclusive K-12 education at national parks and expanding the scope of narratives told by the National Park Service.  Learn more about Katie .

On Nov. 1, 1890, Mississippi adopted a new constitution with a poll tax and arbitrary literacy tests for voting, sections designed to disenfranchise newly-franchised African Americans and some poor whites. The new constitution was a nail in the coffin for Mississippi Reconstruction and a win for voter suppression. It brought an end to the period of democratic progress that followed the Civil War, when African Americans were the majority of eligible voters in Mississippi. (Learn more about teaching the Reconstruction era.)