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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.

    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.

    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 "

    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.

    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.

    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.


    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.

    Folder: Textbook Controversy  Newspaper: Charleston Daily Mail  Date: 1974 November 20
Title: Genealogy Of Textbook Controversy
Description: Chart showing the Pro and Anti Tree.

    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.


    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.


    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.


    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.


    Folder: Textbook Controversy  Newspaper: Charleston Gazette  Date: 1974 September 4
Title: Boycott Takes Its Toll
Description: 20% Absent First Day.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.


    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.


    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.

    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

    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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