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 ordered the system to permit the parents to teach reading at home. In Mobile, Alabama, Federal District Judge W. Brevard Hand said, "For purposes of the First Amendment, secular humanism is a religious belief system," and ordered that 44 elementary and secondary textbooks be removed from Alabama public schools. "Secular humanism" became a pejorative term in 1982 during the fundamentalist crusade against sex education in a Corvallis, Oregon high school. The fundamentalist crusade dates back to a reaction against Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" (1859). Today, it is driven by fear of change, fear of crime, fear of drug use, and other dislocations in society. The organization People for the American Way makes several suggestions to prepare for censorship attacks. The key suggestions are that school systems need: (1) a publicized written selection policy for books and other media; (2) a list of elective and required courses, specifying those requiring parental permission; (3) a statement of the school's curriculum, goals, and philosophy; and (4) procedures for making, receiving, verifying, discussing, and resolving censorship complaints. School personnel, students, and parents should be familiar with the complaining organizations, their arguments, and vocabulary. Finally, censorship cases are usually curtailed when the educational community works together for quality education. (Thirty-five footnotes are appended.) (SM)