Kanawha County - 1975 textbook protest.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Franklin Parker, Professor of Education, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2676
Overview
Correspondence, notes, government reports, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, news releases and other materials on education in Zambia and northern Zimbabwe as gathered by a Benedum Professor of Education at West Virginia University. Addenda include: 1) vitae with list of writings, reprints, career scrapbook, and special journal issue authored by Parker on George Peabody. 2) Twenty-eight articles regarding mostly prominent educators, historians, politicians, scientists, etc. of the 18th,...
Dates:
1957-2008
Kanawha County Book Protest, Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2624
Overview
Articles, broadsides, and other materials concerning selection of textbooks for the public schools of Kanawha County, West Virginia. The controversy involved confrontation between Christian fundamentalists and liberals over educational policy.
Dates:
1975