![]() It described Rosa Parks in one iteration of a weekly lesson without ever mentioning she was Black, leaving the entire history of the segregation she challenged at the back of the proverbial learning bus. ![]() Now, 18 years after her death in 2005, the publishing company Studies Weekly was competing for the lucrative Florida market in social studies textbooks. ![]() She refused to move, and marched into history. 1, 1955, for breaking a law requiring Blacks to surrender their seats to whites on a full bus and - whether full or not - sit in the back. Parks, a Black woman enshrined in the nation’s gallery of the greatest Civil Rights heroes, was arrested in Montgomery on Dec. ![]() It happened to a publishing company, too, aiming to teach the history of Rosa Parks in a weekly text lesson for public school children. But the penalties for violating them are so uncompromising - job loss or third-degree felony conviction - that fear of consequences has compelled a wide range of reactions from school boards, school administrators and teachers statewide. Taken together, the laws are not definitive. ![]() But ask yourself: What are kids actually being exposed to? Lives different from their own, and mindsets different from their own - which creates compassion and empathy.” - Jodi Picoult, author “These parents seek to childproof the world. ![]()
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