Textbook+War+Resources


 * Web Sites **

[|The Kanawha County Textbook Controversy] National Education Association's Report on the Textbook Controversy

[|Textbook War] Web site, including documents and photos, from the perspective of a teacher who opposed the books

[|Banned in the U.S.A.] Book on censorship in schools includes a section on the Textbook Controversy (Google Books: search for "Kanawha")

[|The Great West Virginia Holy War] 1993 editorial about the Textbook Controversy by Charleston Gazette editor James Haught

[|Education in West Virginia] West Virginia State Archives's Web site about history of education includes links pertaining to the Textbook Controversy

__[|Protester Voices] __ by Karl Priest


 * Brief Overview of the Events **



=Articles=


 * Lesson Planning Materials: **


 * Controversial Issues **

<span style="color: blue; font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 12pt;">@http://www.procon.org/

<span style="color: blue; font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 12pt;">@http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/speaking/lesson-plans/pdf-content/speaking-skills-lesson-plans-censored/149725.article

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 * <span style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Great Textbook War **


 * <span style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 18pt;">Various Documents and Images **



**<span style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Kanawha County school board member Alice Moore's 1976 ** **<span style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 16pt;">campaign flyer **


==**<span style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Charleston ** //<span style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Gazette // **<span style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 16pt;">cartoonist Jim Dent's take on the textbook controversy **==





**<span style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Two-page spread from the 1974-75 George Washington High School (Charleston) Yearbook **




==<span style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Thomas Jefferson's 1802 letter to the Baptists of Danbury, CT, asserting the principle of a "wall of eternal separation between church and state." ==



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