“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go out and read every book…”
—Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dartmouth College, Jun. 14, 1953
—Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dartmouth College, Jun. 14, 1953
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Ida Bae Wells
A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.
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(The full quote is online here: https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.0980090c/)