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Download full textParker, Franklin; Parker, Betty – 1987
Textbook censorship cases from Tennessee and Alabama have been brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. In east Tennessee, fundamentalist families objected to a 1983 Holt, Rinehart, and Winston reading series for grades 1-8. Federal District Judge Thomas G. Hull held that Hawkins County Schools had violated the families' First Amendment rights and…
Descriptors: Censorship, Course Content, Moral Issues, Moral Values
Peer reviewedParker, Franklin – Religion and Public Education, 1988
Reviews the activities of the New Christian Right (NCR) related to teaching evolution in the public schools. Describes the effects of legislation and court litigation on the NCR's efforts to eliminate secular humanism from textbooks. Provides an NCR definition of secular humanism. (LS)
Descriptors: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
