School Textbook Protest in West Virginia in 1974
by
Don Means
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In 1974, the Board of Education in Kanawha County West Virginia introduced a set of new textbooks into the standard curriculum. These textbooks contained offensive language, compared Bible stories to well-known myths and fables, and also, in the opinion of some citizens, lacked the basic ideals of...