Textbook+War+Photos

The Rev. Ezra Graley protests the textbooks and holds up one of the books in question-- //Communicating//, part of the D. C. Heath English series.[Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

Alice Moore reviews transcripts as protesters watch through the board office auditorium windows.[Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

Parents and children form picket lines at the entrances to Kanawha County schools. [Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

Miners buck the will of their union's leaders and join the textbook boycott. [Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

The American flag was an ever-present symbol at nearly every anti-textbook gathering. The Rev. Avis Hill is shown here speaking outside the board office. [Photo courtesy of Avis Hill]

The protesters felt the proposed textbooks were undermining religion, home, and the nation. [Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

Some 1,200 students walk out of Charleston's George Washington High School to protest the board's decision to remove the textbooks. [Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

Klansman Dale Reusch attends a January 1975 anti-textbook rally; the Rev. Marvin Horan is holding the umbrella. [Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

Teachers and other supporters of the textbooks attend a rally at the Civic Center on October 27. [Photo by Ferrell Friend, courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

This image shows the damage caused by a presumed dynamite blast at Midway Elementary Midway Elementary along Campbells Creek. [Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

A sparse crowd attends the November 8 meeting, during which the school board reinstates the books. [Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

The Kanawha County Textbook Controversy and similar events were catalysts for the Christian and home-school movements. [Photo courtesy of Charleston Newspapers]

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