As part of our People’s Historians Online series, Zinn Education Project hosted a special session with Keisha N. Blain on the “Roots of the 2020 Rebellion,” focused on the history of policing. Many teacher participants reflected that what they learned about the origins and practices of policing is vital to make sense of current events, but is not in their U.S. history textbooks.Therefore, the resources below are offered to teach outside the textbook in middle and high school classrooms about police throughout U.S. history. There are many more books, articles, and films on these are just a few student-friendly suggestions.
