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Mar 28, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Alabama school history books have been hotly debated since the Civil War. Do you remember what books your school used? Have you ever wondered why they were picked?

A 🧵: An orange and gray graphic that says, "What textbooks d Of course, you don't remember school in 1868. After the Civil War, Republican officials rebuilt a statewide public education system. They opened schools to Black students and implemented standardized textbooks -- two choices, among others, that Alabama residents didn't like. A photo of N.B. Cloud, with the quote, "Superintendent