Volume 7, Issue 7. 1976

Themes:

-isms; overt and covert censorship; historical misrepresentation and suppression;abolition; slavery; women's rights; birth control; immigration; book challenges; self-esteem; anti-bias; free speech; "Sensitivity to Challenged Material: An Orientation to Censorship"; Native Americans

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Robert Foley, Donnarae MacCann, Jane Califf, Elizabeth Martinez, Jimmie Durham, Lynn Edwards, Lynne Rosenthal, Lyla Hoffman, Emily R. Moore, Zalamaqhawe

Materials Reviewed:

My Mother the Mail Carrier/ Mi mama la cartera by Inez Maury. Amazon / WorldCat
Plains Indian Mythology by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin. Amazon / WorldCat
First Pink Light by Eloise Greenfield. Amazon / WorldCat
Trouble with Explosives by Sally Kelley. Amazon / WorldCat
Irene's Idea by Bernice Geoffroy. Amazon / WorldCat
Return to South Town by Lorenz Graham. Amazon / WorldCat
Zia by Scott O'Dell. Amazon / WorldCat
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. Amazon / WorldCat
The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction by Dorothy Sterling, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
Grandma Is Somebody Special by Susan Goldman. Amazon / WorldCat
A Little at a Time by David A. Adler. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The Impact of Our Past by Bernard A. Weisberger
America: Its People and Values by Leonard C. Wood, Ralph H. Gabriel, and Edward L. Biller
The Pageant of American History by Gerald Leinwand
Liberating Women's History by Berenice Carroll
The American Woman: Her Changing Social Economic and Political Roles, 1920-1970 by William Chafe
Founding Mothers: Women in the Revolutionary Era by Linda Grant DePauw
Century of Struggle by Eleanor Flexner
Women in Sexist Society by Vivian Gornick and Barbara Moran
The Golden Thread: New England Mill Girls and Magnates by Hannah Josephson
Up from the Pedestal by Aileen S. Kraditor
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda Lerner
Growing Up Female in America by Eve Merriam
Everyone was Brave by William O’Neill
Womanhood in America: From Colonial Times to the Present by Mary P. Ryan
What Have Women Done? by The San Francisco Women's History Group
Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography by Margaret Sanger
The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics,1830-1930 by Anne Firor Scott
Women and Work in America by Robert Smuts
Herstory: A Woman's View of American Life by June Sochen
Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies by Julia Cherry Spruill
Indian Women of the Western Morning by John Upton Terrell and Donna M. Terrell
Demeter's Daughters: The Women Who Founded America by Selma R. Williams
The Tuscaroras by Shirley Hill Witt
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
How the West Got its Name by John R. Koch

Keywords:

Lillian Gerhardt, critique of CIBC, -isms, overt censorship, covert censorship, reviews, textbooks, rating, evaluation, historical misrepresentation and suppression, Black, abolition, slavery, women's rights, birth control, immigration, book challenges, Iowa plan, selection policy, social change, book selection, awareness, self-image, self-esteem, National Rifle Association (NRA), pluralism, Iowa State Board of Public Instruction, State Multicultural, Curriculum Advisory Committee, selection policy, reconsideration, anti-bias, reconsideration committee, colonialism, Native American, free speech, Sensitivity to Challenged Material: An Orientation to Censorship, role playing, Lene Lenape, Penobscot Indian Nation, Wounded Knee, occupation, Sioux, Thanksgiving, stereotypes, Akwesasne Notes, Chronicles of American Indian Protest, Native American Solidarity Committee, Indian Historian Press, California Education Code, Los Angeles City Board of Education, Los Angeles Unified School District, June Jordan, William F. Buckley Jr., Harriet Pilpel, American Civil Liberties Union, Fairness Doctrine, Brad Chambers, New York Library Association, Beryle Banfield, Dallas Independent School District, North American Conference on Adoptable Children, National Council for the Social Studies, New York Public Library, National Council of English Teachers (NCTE), Jean Carey Bond, terminology, Genevieve Klein, Janet Mellon, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Nathaniel Pinckney, Robert G. Carter