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(Charleston Newspapers)
In 1974, during the most turbulent schoolbook boycott in U.S. history, schools were bombed and buses hit with sniper fire in Kanawha County, West Virginia because local community members objected to works by authors like Eldridge Cleaver and Allen Ginsberg. Studio 360's Trey Kay looks into the literature that triggered it all. Kay's Peabody Award-winning hour-long documentary will be distributed by American RadioWorks.
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Trey Kay
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The outrage expressed is similar to that shown by Richard Feynman when he volunteered to review science books for the State of California's Curriculum Commission. He describes the "process" quite well in this excerpt from his book:
http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
I listened, with interest,to your Great Textbook
War piece and was reminded of a bookstore, in St. Louis, Left Bank Books, that is behind a movement to petition publishers to stop Whitewashing bookcovers.
The books that are concerning to us are the ones with covers depicting white people, but the books are about various ethnicitys, not whites!
I understand that there will be more discussions in regards to the textbooks, I think this movement is related!
the petition can be signed at www.petitiononline.com/whitewas/petition.html
Thanks! Love these shows, I feel smart! Joni
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