Textbook picture in new Florida K-6 textbooks which omits Rosa Parks race and why she had to get up.

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Spazzout22 on March 25th, 2023 at 00:51 UTC »

I rode the bus. One day a man in a wheelchair told me to change seats. I did not. I have the courage of Rosa Parks.

misfitszz on March 25th, 2023 at 02:48 UTC »

She wasn't just some random person that decided to stand up one day. She was an NAACP activist for years before this and had actually been kicked off the bus by the same driver before.

elehman839 on March 25th, 2023 at 04:17 UTC »

This post is badly misleading, as far as I can tell. Please see this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/us/florida-textbooks-african-american-history.html

This image is drawn from a version of a proposed textbook from a company called Studies Weekly that was REJECTED by the Florida Department of Education precisely because it avoided the topic of race:

The Florida Department of Education suggested that Studies Weekly had overreached. Any publisher that “avoids the topic of race when teaching the Civil Rights movement, slavery, segregation, etc. would not be adhering to Florida law,” the department said in a statement.

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The company’s curriculum is no longer under consideration by the state.

I'm no fan of recent Florida legislation (the Stop W.O.K.E. Act), but this submission is just dishonest.