Books are being banned at a record pace, according to the American Library Association.
The objectionable material?
Books like “Ruby Bridges Goes to School”, a picture book for children that recounts Ruby Bridges’ story as the first Black student at an all-white New Orleans school when she was just 6-years old.
White Christian Nationalist groups like “Moms for Liberty” believe the story of Ruby Bridges presents a “narrow and slanted obsession on historical mistakes” which reveal “a heavily biased agenda, one that makes children hate their country, each other, and/or themselves.”
Segregation was much more than a simple mistake. And books like Bridge’s present a fuller, important picture of our nation and its history–one today’s students must learn. But school boards are buckling under the bullying, intimidation, and death threats, even preemptively removing books to avoid conflict.
Will you contribute $10, $15, or $25 to help defend secular elected officials on school boards and throughout the government who are fighting back against this racist campaign to rewrite our history?
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Your donation helps us to defend secular champions in Congress like Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who just last week held a hearing on banned books and asked Ruby Bridges to testify.
