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To learn strategies to fight voter suppression today, young people can study the long and ongoing history of the fight for voting rights in the U.S. #TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachVotingRights

Free 3-lesson unit below by high school teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca.
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Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in the United States
Unit with three lessons on voting rights, including the history of the struggle against voter suppression in the United States.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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WWII vet Louis Allen was murdered #tdih 1964. 💔

Why?

Allen was willing to testify about murder he had witnessed of African American NAACP member & SNCC supporter Herbert Lee by a white state legislator.

FBI refused protection. #TeachVotingRights🧵
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Jan. 31, 1964: WWII Veteran Louis Allen Murdered
Louis Allen, a WWII veteran who witnessed and was willing to testify about the murder of a voting rights worker in Mississippi, was murdered.
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January 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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"At first [the American Negro] was driven from the polls in the South by mobs and violence; and then he was openly cheated; finally by a ‘Gentlemen’s agreement’ with the North," -- NAACP petition to the U.N., by W. E. B. Du Bois & others. #TeachVotingRights See⬇️
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Oct. 23, 1947: An Appeal to the World
The NAACP sent to the U.N. a document titled “An Appeal to the World,” to redress human rights violations the United States committed against its African-American citizens.
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February 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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"We know that for the most part, elections in this country, in the North as well as South, are not free. . . We question, then, the ability & even the desire of the U.S. gov't. to guarantee free elections abroad." -- SNCC statement

#TeachVotingRights ⬇️
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What Our Students Should Know About the Struggle for the Ballot — but Won’t Learn from Their Textbooks
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca From voter ID laws to voter-roll purges, gerrymandering to poll closures to the deadly in-person voting conditions during a pandemic, the right to vote is under attack and the st...
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January 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"Bob Moses of SNCC is arrested for 'Disturbing the Peace' when he tries to escort an elderly Black women into the courthouse to register." -- #tdih 1964, Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Read report from movement veterans ⬇️ 🧵#TeachVotingRights
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Jan. 22, 1964: Freedom Day in Hattiesburg
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) voting rights campaign held a Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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January 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Teach a free 3-lesson unit about long & ongoing history of voter suppression & the struggle for voting rights in the U.S. #TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachVotingRights

For grades 7+, by high school teacher & @rethinkingschools.bsky.social editor Ursula Wolfe-Rocca ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/te...
Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in the United States
Unit with three lessons on voting rights, including the history of the struggle against voter suppression in the United States.
www.zinnedproject.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM