Resource Page:
Empowering education on Mutual Aid Organizing
RESOURCE PAGE: EMPOWERING EDUCATION ON Mutual Aid organizing
This resource page is meant to support educators who are attending our workshop on March 20th, 2021.
Our goal: Help you build classroom resources about mutual aid organizing that are relevant to your students and your community.
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Read before the workshop:
What is Mutual Aid?
What is Mutual Aid? Sharable Graphic Notes by Tamika Middleton, Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid Fund and Yolande Tomlinson, Black Feminist Future.
Learn about Mutual Aid Projects in your area:
Mutual Aid Organizing in History
Overview:
A Visual History of Mutual Aid via Bloomberg CityLab
Mutual Aid Syllabus by Prof. Dean Spade
Mutual aid networks find roots in communities of color via AP News
Mutual Aid Organizing in History: Possible Topics to Teach:
Free African Society 1787-1794 by Michael Barga via VCU Social Welfare History Project
The Universal Negro Improvement Association led by Marcus Garvey via PBS
Sociedades Mutualistas by Julie Leininger Pycior via Texas State Historical Association
For Asian Immigrants, Cooperatives Came From the Home Country by Yvonne Yen Liu via Yes! Magazine
Video Interview: Jessica Gordon Nembhard on Cooperative Economics and Civil Rights
Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program (1969-1980) via Blackpast.org
¡Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords documentary via Third World Newsreel
5 historic women who led
Mutual aid organizing in their community
How to use this resource:
Are you unsure how to connect mutual aid organizing to topics that you teach in K-12? In honor of women’s history month, try teaching about some of these important women leaders, who also led campaigns for mutual aid in their communities.
Ericka Huggins
Read Ericka Huggins’ reflections on her work with the Black Panther Party and the Oakland Community School here:
A Former Black Panther Party Leader Reflects on Her Revolutionary Work via Zora
Jovita Idár
Learn more about Jovita Idár and her work with the Liga Femenil Mexicanista here:
Life Story: Jovita Idar Juárez (1885–1946) via NYHistory.org
Nannie helen burroughs
Read more about the life and work of Nannie Helen Burroughs here:
This Week in 19th Amendment History: Nannie Helen Burroughs via Arlington Public Library
Clara Elizabeth Chan lee
Read more about Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee’s important work here:
The First Chinese-American Woman to Vote in the US Fought For Immigrants via KQED
Ella jo baker
Read more about Ella Baker’s life and work here (information about the Young Negroes Co-operative League begins on page 3):
Guide to the Ella Baker Papers via The New York Public Library