Fortunately, they no longer exist.
SAVE TEXAS KIDS
from these fools
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Headline: Popular Information, 1023/2024
The move to reclassify Colonization and the Wampanoag Story as fiction came after a controversial decision last March to remove librarians from the decision-making process when a children's book is challenged in Montgomery County. Previously, there was an advisory committee composed of five librarians and five community members. As a result of the change, the librarians were removed from the committee, and the determinations of the new committee, which consisted of five non-librarians, became binding. That committee ordered Colonization and the Wampanoag Story to be moved to the fiction section of public libraries in Montgomery County by October 17, 2024, according to public records obtained by the Texas Freedom To Read Project and shared with Popular Information.
Colonization and the Wampanoag Story was written by Linda Coombs, a historian from the Wampanoag Tribe who spent three decades working at the Wampanoag Indigenous Program, an initiative to preserve the history of the Wampanoag people. It was published by Penguin Random House and classified as non-fiction by the Library of Congress.
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