Teach Reconstruction!

Zinn Education Project - Teaching People's History

As part of our Teach Reconstruction campaign, we've been working hard to encourage teachers across the country to rethink the way this era is taught in our schools. Too often, the story of this grand experiment in interracial democracy is skipped or rushed through in classrooms. Look at what we've done and how you can participate below. Also, we're hiring an organizer to help further this campaign.

Reconstruction Teach-In at Howard University

On April 24, close to 100 D.C.-area educators filled the Blackburn Center at Howard University for a teach-in on the hidden history and relevance today of Reconstruction. The event was hosted by the Howard University School of Education, Teaching for Change's D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice, and the Zinn Education Project as part of the Zinn Education Project campaign to teach Reconstruction.

Students in D.C. and Minnesota Help Launch
"Make Reconstruction History Visible" Project

J. J. Cornelius and his classmates at Franklin Middle School in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, researched the history of Reconstruction that gets short shrift in their state history textbook. They found lots of notable stories and drafted text for markers to place at significant sites.

With the guidance of their U.S. history teacher, Joshua Watne, they took part in the Zinn Education Project's "Make Reconstruction History Visible" Project. The project invites students and teachers to identify and advocate for public recognition of Reconstruction history.

People's History Workshops in Charlottesville

Educators in Charlottesville invited Zinn Education Project Organizer Adam Sanchez to facilitate a full-day workshop at the University of Virginia on April 30. The workshop focused on teaching the Black freedom struggle from the resistance of the enslaved and abolitionists during the Civil War, to the heroic efforts to reshape society during Reconstruction, and, finally, the powerful organizing of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Teach Reconstruction Campaign Organizer

We are hiring an education organizer with a grounding in U.S. history to coordinate the Teach Reconstruction campaign in the South. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in a groundbreaking effort to engage students in learning hidden history.

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