Teaching The Stamp Act Protests in the Context of Current Events
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The Stamp Act Protests The "Respectable Populace" Control the Streets by Jeff Schneider Teapot made in Great Britain for Sale in American Colonies 1766 - 1770 In the wake of the Black Action Movement protests against the police killing of George Floyd last year there were a number of articles in newspapers attempting to place the demonstrations in the context of American history. A journalist, Stacy Schiff, wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times on August 16, 2020 in which she characterized the Stamp Act protests, the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party as "good trouble" in John Lewis's phrase. However the center of her argument was that "we" mis-remember them as"tea parties" not how violent they actually were as though they had been conducted by well behaved adults not political actors creating
Teaching The Stamp Act Protests in the Context of Current Events
Teaching The Stamp Act Protests in the…
Teaching The Stamp Act Protests in the Context of Current Events
The Stamp Act Protests The "Respectable Populace" Control the Streets by Jeff Schneider Teapot made in Great Britain for Sale in American Colonies 1766 - 1770 In the wake of the Black Action Movement protests against the police killing of George Floyd last year there were a number of articles in newspapers attempting to place the demonstrations in the context of American history. A journalist, Stacy Schiff, wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times on August 16, 2020 in which she characterized the Stamp Act protests, the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party as "good trouble" in John Lewis's phrase. However the center of her argument was that "we" mis-remember them as"tea parties" not how violent they actually were as though they had been conducted by well behaved adults not political actors creating