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1/n - In honor of the final day of banned books week, lets take a look at the history of banning, challenging and censoring social studies textbooks in the US. 🧵 #BannedBooksWeek #BannedBooksWeek2021
2/n - Before we get to books that were outright banned, I'd like to note that people have been complaining about textbooks for a long time. For example, this clipping from 1836 is from the prospectus of a publishing company. 
3/n They wanted slave owners to invest since the public would be "benefitted by the instruction of a uniform series of improved school books, and the South protected against the introduction of any matter tending in the most remote degree to assail our institutions and property."
Happy #BannedBooksWeek2021 Williamson Co! Here’s 31 books that @Moms4LibertyWC want banned from Williamson County Schools, with the blessing of @MarshaBlackburn, who calls them her “security moms”!🧵
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1. “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale” A 1976 Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon. Moms for Liberty’s complaint? “This is dark material for Kindergarten.”
2. “Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea”, by Chris Butterworth, illustrated by John Lawrence. @sljournal calls it “An accomplished entree to early science topics.” MFL complains it’s too sexy & “only male fish get pregnant”. Also there’s “bending, squeezing, & pushing” (???)
