Feb. 26, 2012: Trayvon Martin Murdered

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 look at stories in Florida history that would be off limits to students.

Teaching Guide. Edited by Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au. 2018. Rethinking Schools. 368 pages.
Essays, teaching activities, role plays, poems, and artwork, designed to illuminate the movement for Black students’ lives, the school-to-prison-pipeline, Black history, gentrification, intersectional Black identities, and more.

Book — Non-fiction. By Barbara Ransby. 2018. 240 pages.
“A love letter to the organizers in the Movement for Black Lives, and a tribute to their increasingly expansive vision.”

Wyatt Outlaw, a Union veteran who became the first Black town commissioner of Graham, North Carolina, was seized from his home and lynched by members of the Ku Klux Klan known as the White Brotherhood, which controlled the county.

Timothy Hood, a veteran of the U.S. Marines, was killed for removing a Jim Crow sign.

Medgar Evers, WWII veteran and civil rights activist, was murdered by a white supremacist in Jackson, Mississippi.

Athens-area Ku Klux Klan members shot and killed WWII veteran and DCPS assistant superintendent Lemuel Penn.

Jimmie Lee Jackson was beaten and shot by an Alabama state trooper during a peaceful voting rights march on Feb. 18. He died eight days later.

Little Bobby Hutton (age 17) of the Black Panther Party was shot dead by the Oakland police.

Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by police and FBI agents in Chicago, Illinois.

Sean Bell was murdered by New York City police on the day before his wedding.

Oscar Grant was fatally shot by BART Police in Oakland.

Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, draws attention to his quiet protest against police brutality during an NFL pre-season game.