Educators and Publishers Are Fighting the Right’s Attempt to Erase Black History
“Then, in the 1980s, the right turned to the purported ‘evils’ of secularism. According to Frederick Clarkson, a senior research analyst at Political Research Associates, a Massachusetts think tank that studies and monitors conservative movements, these efforts gained significant traction. ‘The current effort to control curricula and ban books would not be an issue if the A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more did not have power,’ Clarkson told Truthout. ‘The current fight over particular words or phrases is a symptom of a larger disease: the fact that the right has allies in elected office who are willing to move their agenda forward.’”