One education company is going to great lengths to preserve its sales in 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.
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. 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.
However, 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. The incident is one of many uncovered by theas part of an investigation into the result of “anti-woke” education laws being pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his conservative allies in Florida.
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