Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is a celebration of Black Joy, Black Excellence, and Black Activism.

This Oscar-winning documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson examines the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, and its line-up of iconic Black musicians and activists of the 1960s. The soundtrack is 🔥!

You can grab our free film guide to learn more about the historical context of the film, too.

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/summer-of-soul/

@jazz @music@fedigroups.social

#Activism #Democracy #History #Protest #CivilRights #BlackHistory #USHistory #BlackJoy #BlackExcellence #Music #Movie

50 years ago, Schoolhouse Rock produced this video called "No More Kings" to teach children about how the United States was founded and became a free country.

This has never been more relevant than today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZs3g3qIo

#NoKings #SchoolhouseRock #history #UShistory #education

50 years ago, Schoolhouse Rock produced this video called "No More Kings" to teach children about how the United States was founded and became a free country.

This has never been more relevant than today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZs3g3qIo

#NoKings #SchoolhouseRock #history #UShistory #education

Hm. She's making a point about the use of the Scotch-Irish as foot soldiers of British Empire building --- seasoned (brutal) settler colonialists by the time they were migrating heavily to North America in the early 18C.

So, basically, the bloody violent colonized soldiers from Britain's conquered colonies (Ireland and Scotland) become the Revolution's 'special forces' against the Indians to, for some, become part of the US settler class from which 17 of our Presidents are descended. (Including Jackson, Roosevelt, Reagan, Clinton, and wtf Obama?!?)

#SettlerColonialism
#USHistory

Inspire civic engagement in your classroom and community with Resisterhood! Today we're highlighting Dr. Jean Gearon, one of the subjects of our new documentary Resisterhood.

Jean is the great-granddaughter of one of the original Suffragists in the United States. Jean founded a grassroots political group that's involved in local and state politics, as well as the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) — the same battle Jean’s great-grandmother fought more than 100 years ago.

Teach about grassroots organizing and activism, the Equal Rights Amendment, gender equity and civic engagement with Resisterhood! For grades 10-12, higher ed and adult learning. It's great for campus screenings and community education!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/resisterhood/

@education @film @histodons

#Education#Civics#CivicEngagement#CivicParticipation#Democracy#Activism#Grassroots#Homeschooling#SocialStudies#USHistory#Histodons

Inspire civic engagement in your classroom and community with Resisterhood! Today we're highlighting Dr. Jean Gearon, one of the subjects of our new documentary Resisterhood.

Jean is the great-granddaughter of one of the original Suffragists in the United States. Jean founded a grassroots political group that's involved in local and state politics, as well as the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) — the same battle Jean’s great-grandmother fought more than 100 years ago.

Teach about grassroots organizing and activism, the Equal Rights Amendment, gender equity and civic engagement with Resisterhood! For grades 10-12, higher ed and adult learning. It's great for campus screenings and community education!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/resisterhood/

@education @film @histodons

#Education#Civics#CivicEngagement#CivicParticipation#Democracy#Activism#Grassroots#Homeschooling#SocialStudies#USHistory#Histodons

Yesterday and today I wound up learning about a few different interesting facets of early telecommunications history, Civil Rights #history, and more.

First: I came across telegraphy inventor Guglielmo Marconi's testimony to the US Senate in 1912 about telegraph equipment and procedures involved in the aftermath of the Titanic's sinking.

https://www.metafilter.com/209967/The-Titanic-was-equipped-by-my-company

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#UShistory #disasters #retrospectives

Yesterday and today I wound up learning about a few different interesting facets of early telecommunications history, Civil Rights #history, and more.

First: I came across telegraphy inventor Guglielmo Marconi's testimony to the US Senate in 1912 about telegraph equipment and procedures involved in the aftermath of the Titanic's sinking.

https://www.metafilter.com/209967/The-Titanic-was-equipped-by-my-company

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#UShistory #disasters #retrospectives

I was shocked that there was not a single book by Emma Goldman in my local public library.

So I looked her up, and came across this 1919 work I hadn't seen before.

DEPORTATION - Its Meaning and Menace

It seems deportation without due process to gulags overseas is as American as apple pie.

#EmmaGoldman #Books #Anarchy #USHistory