How can we fight voter suppression?
Equip young people with lessons from history on organizing for voting rights.
That is why GOP lawmakers are making it illegal for students to learn from history how to defend voting rights — at the same time they are making it harder to vote.
The “anti-CRT” campaign is what voter suppression looks like in school.
Textbooks ignore or minimize the long struggle for voting rights — and the equally long campaign to suppress these rights.
It is essential that the Zinn Education Project continue to provide free lessons to teach outside the textbook — and defend teachers’ right to teach a full and accurate history.
Provide teachers with people’s history lessons on voting rights in 2024.
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