Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 Map

In this election year, educators and allies are planning creative Teach Truth Day of Action events all over the country.

For example:

The Plessy and Ferguson Initiative, in collaboration with VOTE org and the Power Coalition, are hosting an event at the A. P. Tureaud Park in New Orleans.

Iowans for Youth & Truth will rally at historic College Green Park. They will have live music, a book exchange, a postcard station, a chance to pledge to teach the truth and defend LGBTQ+ rights, and opportunities to network and strategize. RSVP.

AAPI New Jersey will have an information table at Out Montclair’s Pride Festival, the largest in New Jersey.

Bainbridge Island School District Multicultural Advisory Council, in collaboration with Kitsap Erace Coalition, Kitsap Regional Library, BI Erace, and Living Life Arts Heritage, are hosting a book swap at the Bainbridge History Museum in Washington. RSVP.

The D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice have tables at three bookstores and a farmers’ market in Washington, D.C. on June 8 and a booth at the Capital Pride Festival on June 9.

Students near Stone Mountain, Georgia will investigate the largest Confederate monument in the world and how the adjacent historically African American community of Shermantown has resisted the hate it represents. Students will report out to the community as part of the Teach Truth Day of Action. RSVP.

Teachers attending the College Board AP Essay scoring on June 8 in Utah plan to host a Teach Truth table outside the convention center.

Educators in Patterson, New Jersey, and Boston are planning teach-ins about Palestine.

City University School of Education teacher educators are hosting information tables at all five campuses in Washington.

Washington Ethnic Studies is hosting a rally with speakers, performances, and a call to action during their legislative planning session.

Educators are planning events at bookstores, libraries, and farmers markets in Albuquerque; Los Angeles; Nashville; New Haven, Connecticut; Newark, Delaware; Coral Springs, Florida; Warner Robins, Georgia; Salisbury, Maryland; Severna Park, Maryland; Littleton, Massachusetts; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Clovis, New Mexico; Newark, New Jersey; Teaneck, New Jersey; Arverne, New York; Colton, New York; Herkimer, New York; Portland, Oregon; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; and more cities.

The New Republic is hosting a Right to Read celebration featuring the first ever Toni Morrison Award for Courage at the Pérez Art Museum Miami on June 8 at 5:30 p.m. The evening will feature authors who are currently banned or who have been banned in the recent past; fellow writers who have taken up the cause; and teachers, librarians, and students who have been directly impacted by book bans. RSVP.

And many more.

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