Regarding the GOP lawyer who, as a high school senior in AP English was triggered by Beloved:
White parents claiming books by black authors made them nervous was one of the early organizing events of the religious right, in Kanawha County, WV, in the early 1970s.
White parents claiming books by black authors made them nervous was one of the early organizing events of the religious right, in Kanawha County, WV, in the early 1970s.
E.g., a parent tried to ban Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice as an optional reading in an AP class.
Parents claimed poems by Langston Hughes were "anti-Christian."
Work by James Baldwin was called "anti-white."
Some parents were egged on by the Heritage Foundation.
Parents claimed poems by Langston Hughes were "anti-Christian."
Work by James Baldwin was called "anti-white."
Some parents were egged on by the Heritage Foundation.
Despite threats, fires, and bombings, and visits from the Klan, the school district adopted most of the curriculum, with one concession:
The school board yielded to right-wing demands that future textbooks "encourage loyalty to the United States" and "not encourage sedition or revolution against our government."
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See: Unholy, pp. 130-36.
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