I decided to read “White Bird,” to see for myself. One parent complained that the book must be banned because it's "biased" and could lead to the "skewing of a young child's mind." Palacio, about a Jewish girl living in France after Nazis seized power. In his biography of civil rights icon John Lewis, “The Truth is Marching On,” Jon Meacham reports that in 1960, a book featuring black rabbits and white rabbits was banned in Birmingham, Alabama.Īlso on the Texas parents’ list is the graphic novel “White Bird,” by R.J. The book includes reference to the racism that Olympian Wilma Rudolph encountered when she was a child in Tennessee in the 1940s. One book in question is “When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball,” by Mark Weakland. Some of the parents took official steps to challenge the suitability of these books. Texas parents want 50 books banned from school libraries.
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