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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1993 October 12 |
Title: The Great Kanawha Holy War |
Description: History of the Kanawha County textbook controverary in 1974 and 1975 in Charleston. Names: Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Ku Klux Klan, Rev. Charles Meadows of Elkview (Kanawha County), Civic Center, school board member Alice Moore of St. Albans (Kanawha County), Christian American Parents, Heck's owner and school board member Russell Isaacs, Rev. Marvin Horan, Campbells Creek (Kanawha County), Rev. Ezra Graley, Rev. Charles Quigley, Congressman Robert Dornan of California, Magistrate Patsy McGraw. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: n/a |
Date: n.d. |
Title: Controversial Texts Order Being Prepared |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 June 27 |
Title: 27 Ministers Join to Oppose Texts |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: n/a |
Date: n.d. |
Title: Ten Clergymen Endorse Books |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 June 24 |
Title: 250 Attend Book Opposition Rally |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 June 28 |
Title: Textbook Package Accepted - Board Deletes 8 Supplements |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: The Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1996 September 23 |
Title: Documentary To Feature Textbook Battle |
Description: ...communism and satanism in textbooks...religion debates. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 October 7 |
Title: 2nd Boycott of Schools Advocated |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Clarksburg Telegram |
Date: 1994 September 27 |
Title: 1994 Marks the 20th Anniversary of Kanawha Textbook Controversy |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Daily Mail |
Date: 1994 September 30 |
Title: Avis Hill Was Right About Textbooks |
Description: ..reply (by Karl C. Priest) to the 14 Sept 1994 article "When books became too dangerous " |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: n/a |
Date: 2000 |
Title: The 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy |
Description: Pages copied from Speak to the Past A Memoir Fat With Words by Margaret Calwell. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 September 3 |
Title: More Than 2,000 Plan School Boycott |
Description: More than 2,000 persons jammed into Campbells Creek Community Park to hear plans for boycotting Kanawha County schools until a controversial textbook series is removed. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: n/a |
Date: 2009 |
Title: The Great Textbook War A Radio Documentary |
Description: One sheet providing information on the documentary and a traveling exhibit titled: The Books and Beliefs: The Kanawha County Textbook War.
Flyer---Issued by Kanawha Valley Historical & Preservation Society. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Date: 1998 October 11 |
Title: Book-Banning Controversy Scarred Kanawha Schools |
Description: Written by Margaret Calwell a retired Kanawha County teacher. This article is a condensation of her chapter on the historic 1974 fundamentalist uprising against "godless" textbooks. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Daily Mail |
Date: 1974 November 20 |
Title: Genealogy Of Textbook Controversy |
Description: Chart showing the Pro and Anti Tree. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: n/a |
Date: 1976 November |
Title: Cultural Revolution In Appalachia |
Description: Jack Welch is an associate professor, Department of English at West Virginia University.
Pages 21 - 29---The Educational Forum. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: n/a |
Date: 1976 |
Title: Textbook Controversy in West Virginia |
Description: By Edwin Welch chairman of Department of Sociology at Lebanon Valley College.
Page 20 & continued 30-32. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 2004 April 28 |
Title: 'It Was Simply Overwhelming' |
Description: Former Kanawha student (Charlie Loeb) recalls role in 1970s textbook controversy. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Fairmont Times |
Date: 1974 December 25 |
Title: Textbook Battle One of State's Top Stories In 1974 |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Huntington Herald-Advertiser |
Date: 1974 November 24 |
Title: Interpretation Sets Opinions ---- Underwood |
Description: Kanawha County School Superintendent Kenneth Underwood is quoted in article. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Date: 1975 May 11 |
Title: Controversy ----- 8 Months Later |
Description: Pictured is Rose Snuffer leading morning prayers at private Christian school. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Huntington Herald-Advertiser |
Date: 1974 November 24 |
Title: 3 Basic Kanawha Book Objections Evident |
Description: Excerpts from 500-page report summarizing objections of some parents to Kanawha County's controversial textbooks. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Date: 1999 May 23 |
Title: Alice Moore's Textbook Battle Shook Up School Board, County |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Date: 1984 September 23 |
Title: Textbook Controversy |
Description: Memories of 1974 dispute burn brightly.
Full page article. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Date: 1979 September 23 |
Title: Scars Remain From Textbook Flap of 1974 |
Description: Five Years Ago, Two Ministers and a Woman School Board Members Were Key Figures in a Dispute Over What Textbooks Should Be Used in Kanawha County Public Schools. The Controversy Was Emotional, Sometimes Violent.
This article provides a look at what happened since.
Pictured are fundamentalist preacher and textbook opponent Marvin Horan and Episcopal priest James Lewis who defended the textbooks. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 September 4 |
Title: Boycott Takes Its Toll |
Description: 20% Absent First Day. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 October 9 |
Title: Rev. Graley Gets 60-Day Term $1,500 Fine In Contempt Case |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 September 6 |
Title: 2 Book Foes Deny Fueling School Boycott |
Description: Alice Moore and Matthew Kinsolving. Both served on Kanawha County School Board. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 September 6 |
Title: School Get Text Fight Injunction |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 October 6 |
Title: Text Sentiment Similar |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 October 9 |
Title: Guest Editorial---Kanawha Book Protest Working Class Warning |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 1974 October 8 |
Title: Parents View Books, Quiz Text Consultants |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Newspapers.Com |
Date: n.d. |
Title: Former Chandler Teacher Writes About 1974 Textbook Controversy |
Description: Protester Voices, The 1974 Textbook Tea Party by Karl Priest of Poca. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Washington Times |
Date: 2011 October 10 |
Title: Knight: Culture-War Heroine Gets Her Due |
Description: Alice Moore opened parents 'eyes to liberal indoctrination in textbooks. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Daily Mail |
Date: 2009 July 17 |
Title: Preachers Recount Part In Textbook Controversy |
Description: Ministers were on opposite sides fo the 1974 issue.
Avis Hill and Jim Lewis. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Date: 2009 August 22 |
Title: The Kanawha Textbook Controversy |
Description: The controversy began in 1974 when a school board member Alice Moore questioned some of the books approved by a review committee.
Article is full page and includes photos taken during controversy. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Date: 2009 August 23 |
Title: Birth Of A Conservative Movement---Book Protestors Reunited |
Description: 35 years later, many still activists. |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Date: 2009 August 22 |
Title: Kanawha County Textbook War---Protest Pivotal To U. S. Today |
Description: Events called omen of 'rightward shift' from liberal radicalism |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 2007 November 1 |
Title: Conroy Debate Recalls 1974 Textbook Battle |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Date: 2010 May 29 |
Title: City native (Trey Kay) Wins Peabody for Radio Documentary on Textbook Battle |
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Folder: Textbook Controversy |
Newspaper: Charleston Gazette |
Date: 2009 October 7 |
Title: Kanawha County Schools----Forum Examines 1974 Textbook Protest |
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