“Moms For Liberty” Seek To Ban Book About MLK Jr.

November 29, 2021 Education, Racism

The Tennessean reports:

The complaint, the first directed to the state under the new law passed this spring, was filed by Robin Steenman [photo], chair of the Moms for Liberty Williamson County chapter, a conservative parent group sweeping the nation.

The 11-page complaint alleged that the literacy curriculum, Wit and Wisdom, used by Williamson County Schools and at least 30 other districts, has a “heavily biased agenda” that makes children “hate their country, each other and/or themselves.”

The group detailed concerns with four specific books on subjects like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, the integration of California schools by advocate Sylvia Mendez and her family, and the autobiography of Ruby Bridges, adapted for younger learners.

Read the full article. As has been previously reported, Moms For Liberty claims to be a grassroots group of “concerned parents,” but in fact they are the creation of national dark money right wing groups.



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