Textbook Cuts Race from Rosa Parks Story
Amid ‘Anti-Woke’ Florida Push: NYT
WTF
Alec Karam
Breaking News Intern
Updated Mar. 16, 2023 6:56PM ET
Published Mar. 16, 2023 6:22PM ET
Reuters
It appears one education company is going to incredible lengths to preserve its sales in the state of Florida—reportedly whitewashing the story of Rosa Parks to remove any mention of race, according to a version of the social studies textbook reviewed by The New York Times. Parks, a Black woman, was famously asked to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus because of her race, thanks to discriminatory segregation laws. But she refused, becoming a cause célèbre in the civil rights movement.
NOW, in an updated version of a textbook created by Studies Weekly, a company which caters to mostly younger students, all mentions of race and segregation have been removed.
It’s unclear whether the version was officially submitted for review in Florida—though it was publicly available on the publisher’s website as recently as last week. The incident is one of many uncovered by the Times as part of an investigation into the result of “anti-woke” education laws being pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his conservative allies in Florida. Another textbook was apparently rewritten to include a tortured passage on slavery that also removed any mention of race—claiming - it was illegal for “men of certain groups” to be unemployed.
Textbook Cuts Race from Rosa Parks Story Amid ‘Anti-Woke’ Florida Push: NYT (thedailybeast.com)
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Amid ‘Anti-Woke’ Florida Push: NYT
WTF
Alec Karam
Breaking News Intern
Updated Mar. 16, 2023 6:56PM ET
Published Mar. 16, 2023 6:22PM ET
Reuters
It appears one education company is going to incredible lengths to preserve its sales in the state of Florida—reportedly whitewashing the story of Rosa Parks to remove any mention of race, according to a version of the social studies textbook reviewed by The New York Times. Parks, a Black woman, was famously asked to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus because of her race, thanks to discriminatory segregation laws. But she refused, becoming a cause célèbre in the civil rights movement.
NOW, in an updated version of a textbook created by Studies Weekly, a company which caters to mostly younger students, all mentions of race and segregation have been removed.
“She was told to move to a different seat,”
the lesson reads, according to the newspaper.
It’s unclear whether the version was officially submitted for review in Florida—though it was publicly available on the publisher’s website as recently as last week. The incident is one of many uncovered by the Times as part of an investigation into the result of “anti-woke” education laws being pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his conservative allies in Florida. Another textbook was apparently rewritten to include a tortured passage on slavery that also removed any mention of race—claiming - it was illegal for “men of certain groups” to be unemployed.
Textbook Cuts Race from Rosa Parks Story Amid ‘Anti-Woke’ Florida Push: NYT (thedailybeast.com)
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