On Monday, October 26, join our Zinn Education Project Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class with acclaimed sports journalist and author Howard Bryant to explore the striking parallels between the Robeson–McCarthy era and today: media complacency, attacks on civil liberties, and demands for public displays of loyalty.

Bryant explores this history in his book Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America. As he puts it, quoting journalist David Maraniss, “History writes people out of the story, and it’s our job to write them back in.” Join us to write — and teach — the full stories of these legendary figures back into history.