#TDIH is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 5 people shared 1,070 posts with it — around 36 a day. Activity is down 37% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 13 with 81 posts.

Posts with #TDIH

Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

5 months ago

#tdih 2004, NFL star and soldier Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan. U.S. government used his death in pro-war propaganda. The family learned Tillman was killed by “friendly fire” & bravely spoke out against the war & the cover-up. Read ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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April 22, 2004: Football Star Pat Tillman Killed in Afghanistan

Football star and soldier Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan. The U.S. government used his death in pro-war propaganda.

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Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

about 2 months ago

#tdih 1952 22-yr-old WAC Sarah Louise Keys Evans from NC bravely refused to give up her seat for a white man on charter bus from NJ to NC. She was arrested, filed suit (with lawyer Dovey J. Roundtree), & won in Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. #TeachTruth Read ⬇️. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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Aug. 1, 1952: Sarah Keys Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus

Sarah Keys refused to give up her seat on a state-to-state charter bus, prompting the landmark court case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.

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Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

1 day ago

#tdih 1830 Forty African Americans, elected by communities in nine states, met in Philadelphia. They founded the National Colored Conventions movement. Read ⬇️, follow @ccp-org.bsky.social, and visit their digital collection with essays. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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Sept. 20, 1830: The First Meeting of the Colored Conventions Movement

Forty African Americans, elected by communities in nine states, met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1830 to organize for improving the lives of Black people in North America. That week, they founded ...

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@gwill2k.bsky.social

3 months ago

#TDIH 1865 #OTD 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, TX to secure freedom in the westernmost state of the Confederacy. The US army announced more than 250,000 enslaved African Americans were free by executive decree. This day became known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people of Texas.

A blend of the words June and nineteenth, it marks June 19, 1865: the day that Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3, proclaiming that the enslaved African Americans there were free.

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free,” the order read. “This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.”

People wave a Juneteenth flag during a celebration in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 2021. Mark Felix AFP

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Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

2 days ago

#tdih 1868 Camilla Massacre 💔, Albany, Ga. After being expelled from elected office, African Americans & a few whites bravely marched to attend a political rally. Fired upon by whites in town, & pursued as they fled. Followed by weeks of #votersuppression 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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Sept. 19, 1868: Camilla Massacre

As African Americans marched peacefully in response to their expulsion from elected office, more than a dozen were massacred near Albany, Georgia.

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Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

"Since Reconstruction times 53,000 Negroes have been killed in the South, & not more than three white men have been convicted & hung for these crimes." -- Robert Smalls, SC Constitutional Convention, #tdih 1895 #TeachReconstruction #Reparations 🧵Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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Sept. 10, 1895: South Carolina Constitutional Convention Convened

The South Carolina Constitutional Convention convened to disenfranchise Black voters.

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Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

📣“We shouldn’t have to go out there and do wrong to our own people.” 📣 43 African American soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas refused deployment for riot control at DNC in Chicago, #tdih 1968. Punished with court-martial, hard labor, & reductions in rank. www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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August 23, 1968: Forty-Three Black Soldiers Stage Sit-In at Ft. Hood

When the “Fort Hood 43” refused to board a plane to Chicago for riot-control duty against fellow African Americans, their non-violent act became one of the largest demonstrations of dissent in U.S. mi...

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Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

"He was murdered by the irresponsibility of every politician who has moved down the path of demagoguery, who has fed his constituents the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism. . ." -- Dr. King in eulogy for Rev. James Reeb who died #tdih 1965 www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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March 11, 1965: Rev. James Reeb Murdered in Selma

Rev. James Reeb died as a result of being severely beaten by a group of white men during Bloody Sunday in Selma two days earlier.

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Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

8 months ago

You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970). Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵 Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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Feb. 8, 1968: Orangeburg Massacre

Two years before the Kent State murders, 28 students were injured and three were killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina — most shot in the back by the state police while involved in a peaceful protest.

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Green and Red Podcast

@podcastgreenred.bsky.social

3 months ago

“When we can't dream any longer we die.” Happy birthday to Emma Goldman, born on #tdih in 1869. Anarchist, revolutionary, writer and activist. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist philosophy in North America and Europe through writing and organizing.

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Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Harriet Tubman, with a group of people, "stormed building where Charles Nalle was being held for 2nd time &, through gunfire, liberated him." #tdih 1860 in Troy, NY, Tubman helped rescue Nalle, held under horrific Fugitive Slave Law. Read⬇️ 🎨 by Mark Priest www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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April 27, 1860: Harriet Tubman Helped Rescue Charles Nalle

Harriet Tubman helped rescue Charles Nalle, a fugitive from slavery in Virginia, in Troy, New York.

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Zinn Education Project

@zinnedproject.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

"Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest . . ." -- Ella Baker, SNCC #tdih 2012 Murder of Trayvon Martin, Sanford, Fla. 💔🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/new….

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Feb. 26, 2012: Trayvon Martin Murdered

Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager, was murdered. The death of Martin and acquittal of the man who shot him sparked the national and global Movement for Black Lives.

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