In the fall of 1974, new “language arts” textbooks appeared throughout the school system in Kanawha County, West Virginia. They fostered a new value system, different from traditional morality. Parents were upset that open-ended questions like “When is it okay to steal?” were suggested as teacher discussion topics in schoolbooks. Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice, with its discussion of the…
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