Volume 11, Issue 5. 1980

Themes:

whitewashing; racism; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); white supremacy; historical misrepresentation and omission; affirmative action; discrimination

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lyla Hoffman, Mary Lou Byler, Child Care Resource Center, Jan M. Goodman, Anne G. Toensmeier, Irma Garcia, Katie Hoffman

Materials Reviewed:

Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little. Amazon / WorldCat
Mother, Aunt Susan, and Me by William Jay Jacobs. Amazon / WorldCat
Sacajawea: Wilderness Guide by Kate Jassem. Amazon / WorldCat
Noelle's Brown Book by Noelle Lamperti and family and friends. Amazon / WorldCat
Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea? by Gloria D. Miklowitz. Amazon / WorldCat
There's a Rainbow in My Closet by Patti Stren. Amazon / WorldCat
Period by JoAnn Gardner-Loulan, Bonnie Lopez, and Marcia Quackenbush. Amazon / WorldCat
Wasi'chu: The Continuing Indian Wars by Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas. Amazon / WorldCat
Children's Books for Learning: A Bibliography of Multi-Ethnic Resources for Classroom Use by Naomi Wall. Amazon / WorldCat
Social Stratification in the United States: An Analytic Guidebook by Social Graphics Company. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan by David M. Chalmers
I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan by Stetson Kennedy
The Ku Klux Klan: A Century of Infamy by William Peirce Randel
The Ku Klux Klan in American Politics by Arnold S. Rice
Ku Klux Klan: The Invisible Empire by David Lowe
Hoods: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan by Robert P. Ingalls
Women in America: Half of History by Mary Kay Thompson Tetrault
A Century of Struggle by Eleanor Flexner
Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story by Gilbert Livingston Wilson
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Schulman
Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays by Berenice A. Carroll, ed.
Mississippi: Conflict and Change by Charles Sallis and James W. Loewen, eds.
Your Mississippi by John K. Bettersworth
The Secret Ship by Peggy Mann
Nini at Carnival by Lloyd Errol
Third World Voices for Children by Robert E. McDowell and Edward Lavitt
The Chichi Hoohoo Boogeyman by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

Keywords:

whitewashing, racism, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Junior Scholastic, white supremacy, recruitment, historical misrepresentation and omission, sympathizers, Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkinson, KKK Youth Corps, affirmative action, colonialism, liberation struggles, discrimination, Anti-Defamation League, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Anti-Klan Network, Mary Joy Carlson, Holly Knox, National Organization for Women (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund, Irwin Suall, Social Responsibility Round Table (SRRT), critical literacy, journalism, Merle Froschl, Non-Sexist Child Development Project, Action Against Apathy of St. Louis, Samuel B. Ethridge, National Education Association (NEA), John Henrik Clarke, fascism, Nazis, Adolph Hitler, Joy Brothers, institutional racism, Aaron Morrison, textbooks, sexism, patriarchy, women's history, Black history, consciousness-raising, women's movement, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, Matina Horner, Jane McGoldrick, Phyllis McNally, socialization, Gerda Lerner, Married Women's Property Act, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Margaret Sanger, National Organization for Women (NOW), Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ida Wells Barnett, Shirley Chisholm, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jade Snow Wong, interlinked oppressions, Mississippi, censorship, Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, Robert B. Moore, Black Code, coded racism, South Bay Mayors' Committee for Employment of the Handicapped, Media Resource Center, Native American, handicapism, book lists, bibliographies, reviews, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Judy Yung, Asian American Community Library, Judith Schiek Braunagel, Lorraine Hansberry, classism, People's Translation Service, Japanese American Curriculum Project (JACP), Women's Medical Association, ageism, Public Affairs Committee, National Women's Health Network, Math/Science Resource Center, Child Care Resource Center, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Documentary Photo Aids, Charles Trott, Nadema Agard