Thanks to donations, we are sending Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits to teachers. These toolkits help young people see voting as part of a broader effort to improve their lives and communities — and…

The first Colored Convention in Maine was an opportunity for northern Black abolitionists to organize and strategize for racial justice and the freedom of those still enslaved throughout the South.

Join Teaching for Change in supporting Central America through Teach Central America Week, October 5-9, 2026. Engage in educational activities promoting cultural understanding.

Article. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. If We Knew Our History series. Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized and disjointed, leaving students…

The cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal began to unravel when Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Nicaraguan troops.

To raise awareness about the threats to teaching people's history, we offer an interactive pop-up display. Learn more and order a box to display at Pride festivals, bookstores, farmers's markets, scho...

On October 4th, 115 Burglund high schools students walked out in response to the expulsions and the murder of Herbert Lee. SNCC had not organized the...

Burglund students walked out in response to the expulsions of their classmates and the murder of Herbert Lee.

A Zinn Education Project survey reveals how collective struggle helps educators resist political intimidation.

Ethiopia was invaded by Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini.

Student demonstrators and other civilians were killed by the military and police in Mexico in advance of the 1968 Olympic Games.

Under the orders of U.S.-backed Dominican dictator President Rafael Trujillo, the execution of more than 20,000 Haitians began in what is now known as the Parsley Massacre at Massacre River.

The Free Speech Movement was launched at UC–Berkeley.

Book — Non-fiction. By Michael Bronski, adapted for by Richie Chevat. 2019. 336 pages. A young adult readers edition that explores how LGBTQ people have always been a part of our national identity,…

Transgender Justice in Schools provides inspirational stories from trans students and educators and resources for teachers, students, and parents seeking to build communities where everyone…

Joy Polley was a 27 year old Southside Chicago resident and teacher who challenged Chicago’s infamous dress restriction law, which was used to target trans and queer people, Black women, drag queens…

Teaching Activity. By Nick Palazzolo. Rethinking Schools. 2025. 74 pages. A dilemma-based, problem-solving lesson on the history of the fight for queer liberation in the United States.

Book — Non-fiction. By Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace. 2021. 144 pages. Scipio Africanus Jones — a self-taught attorney who was born enslaved — leads a momentous series of court cases to save…

In this activity, students take on the role of activist-experts to improve upon a Congressional bill for reparations for Black people.

By Linda Christensen The author describes teaching about racist patterns of murder, land theft, displacement, and wealth inequality through the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. The term “race riot” does not…

White Arkansans, fearful of what would happen if African-Americans organized, took violent action, but it was the victims who ended up standing trial

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Confronting a national epidemic of white mob violence, 1919 was a time when Black people defended themselves, fought back, and demanded full citizenship in thousands of acts of…

Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates…

Teaching Activity. By Jesse Hagopian. 2025. 40 pages. This lesson explores major examples of laws passed to suppress Black education in the wake of major victories for the Black Freedom Struggle,…

Critically reviewed selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators.

Book — Non-fiction. By Mia Bay. 2021. 400 pages. From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, this book explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice.

Reading by Julian Hipkins III and David Busch The struggle for the desegregation of transportation has a long history in the United States. This timeline outlines some key individuals and…

In protest of Jim Crow discrimination on public transportation, Frederick Douglass and his friend, white politician James N. Buffum, boarded a Eastern Railroad Company train, in a first class car and…

In the face of attempts by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to ban AP African American studies, social justice books, and critical race theory in K–12 schools (and DEI in public colleges), we take a…

Prequel to the bestselling series DRAGONS IN A BAG. Before Ma became the most powerful witch in Brooklyn . . . before Ma met a boy named Jaxon who helped her deliver three baby dragons to the realm o...

Book — Non-fiction. By Cameron McWhirter. 2012. 368 pages. A chronicle of white supremacist violence in major U.S. cities across the nation after World War I.

Book — Non-fiction. By Eve L. Ewing. 2019. 96 pages. Poetic reflections on the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 — part of 'Red Summer' — in a history told through Ewing's speculative and Afrofuturist lenses...

While education is central to the fascist agenda, it is not getting adequate attention from progressive forces. You can help shine a light on education by joining the campaign to Teach Truth.

A white mob of between 5,000 to 15,000 lynched African American Will Brown. The Army arrested mob ringleaders. Even though photographs identified them, all of the suspects were eventually released.

Encampments of Comanches, Kiowas, Kiowa Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahos were attacked by the U.S. military.

In response to the promotion of voter registration, a KKK-like group massacred hundreds of people, most of whom were African American.

David Walker published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, one of the most important documents of the 19th century.

Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale about student organizing and state repression. This class is part of the Zinn Edu...