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Presented by the Zinn Education Project
A Collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change
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What We Don't Learn About the Black Panther Party----but Should
By Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian
Fifty years ago this month, the Black Panther Party was born. Its history holds vital lessons for today's movement to confront racism and police violence, yet textbooks either misrepresent or minimize the significance of the Black Panthers.
This local organizing that the Panthers engaged in has been erased in the textbooks, yet it is precisely what won them such widespread support. Continue reading.
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"What We Don't Learn About the Black Panther Party
----but Should"
is the newest article in the Zinn Education Project series,
If We Knew Our History
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'What We Want, What We Believe': Teaching with the Black Panthers' Ten Point Program
By Wayne Au. The author describes how he used a study of the Black Panther's Ten Point Program to help students assess issues in their own communities and to develop Ten Point Programs of their own. Available in Spanish. Download teaching activity.
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Why We Should Teach About
the FBI's War on the
Civil Rights Movement
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca.
A 1971 break-in at FBI offices revealed a conspiracy----known as COINTELPRO----for the FBI to infiltrate, disrupt, and destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights organizations. Textbooks ignore this chapter in U.S. history, but it's essential background to understand what's happening today. Read article.
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