Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
George Stevens | Loveland, CO
Reconstruction is an important part of this country's history and the closest we have come to full participation in the governance of our country. Progress next is rolled back: As has been the case through our country's history and racism of so many types, fear, anger, bitterness, and an assumption that life is a zero-sum game if whites and black share influence and power whites will lose what they have. We must stop the lies; instead engage in truth telling. Neither our country or its people are pure. The truth lies in honestly depicting our history to today's and tomorrow's learners!
Ellie Shrier | New York, NY
Grace Weston | Portland, OR
Decades of denial of our true history in our schools have led to the ignorance that are behind things like the Jan 6 insurrection. This denial, all to keep white guilt at bay, is harmful and stagnating to the society as a whole. We may not be responsible for the crimes of our white ancestors, but we are responsible to KNOW about it, so as not to keep denying the true history of much of our current population!
Ami Fox | Portland, OR
Lindsay Warren | Greenwich Twp, NJ
teaching Reconstruction should be foundational in American history, and the fact that it isn't in many schools is disheartening.
Coco Dupuy | New Orleans, LA
Chelsea Holabird | Amherst Town of, MA
This is OUR history. It's time to change the narrative of this essential piece of history and how it has shaped the structures of systemic racism in our country.
Maria Colvin | Boulder, CO
Maria Colvin | Boulder, CO
Kathy Wooten | Las Cruces, NM
Our country has suffered a prolonged period of not facing, and, certainly not teaching, the reality of the history of this subjugated land. We all need the Truth in order to even begin resolution for all of us - no matter the skin color or culture.
Aretha Brown | York, PA
All citizens need to be throughly informed about America’s construction and the Reconstruction needs to be told. As a history educator, who is of African descent, I am one of the two certified Social Studies in the district. There are none at our predominantly black and brown high school. That is why I add my name.
Marcia Messado | Washington, DC
A child devoid of his or her history; is a child devoid of his or her sense of self. Let’s close the gap in our nation’s timeline; and impart to our children; the true timelines and events, of our people’s history. It is the true American heritage lesson they deserve to know; so that all, will now be in full context; with a new comprehensive frame of reference; and, a new sense of self.
Don FEENEY | Louisville, KY
Keith Brooks | Brooklyn, NY
"THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD. IT IS NOT EVEN PAST".
Charles Pinderhughes | Newark, NJ
I believe it is critically important to teach lessons of Reconstruction and its overthrow [as I do in my Sociology classes], to better inform our battle against white supremacy today.
JEANETTE BECK | Brooklyn, NY
the history of Africans in america is american history
Pia Payne-Shannon | Minneapolis, MN
Gwenelle O'Neal | Mount Laurel, NJ
Schools have the responsibility to teach the true history of the U.S and the world.
Nancy Wright | Catonsville, MD
Kate Bonin | Furlong, PA
I am a college professor and a parent of three school-age children. I firmly believe as an educator, a parent, and an American citizen, that our children need to learn of the aftermath of the Civil War. The opportunities that opened up to newly emancipated Blacks--all the way into Congress!, and the better society that might have been. And the ugly backlash that ensued once the Union soldiers were withdrawn from the South. Reconstruction is a key chapter of America's divided history on race--both the good side and the ugly one. We can't come to terms with who we are today, unless we learn in detail how this cognitive dissonance has played out, from 1619 through to 2021.
Linda Aarons | Upper Marlboro, MD
I am a teacher and we need to teach the truth to students so they can become informed citizens.
mike frailey | Manheim Twp, PA
Barbara Duhl | San Francisco, CA
We need to build our young people's knowledge and critical thinking skills so that they understand the impacts and consequences of the defeat of reconstruction and to help create a new generation of activists committed to fighting White Supremacy.
Leonard Kaczynski | Vero Beach, FL
My research of K-12 and undergraduate courses revealed limited to one paragraph or non-existent to one of USA largest migrations of human assets.
Lauren McCartney | Hillsboro, OR
Teaching about reconstruction gives us powerful examples of how people collaborated to make change towards justice in our country, which can help guide us as we work for justice in the future.
Twitter
Google plus
LinkedIn