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National debate revives criticism of Texas textbook standards on Civil War
Omissions fuel new criticism
July 10, 2015 Updated: July 10, 2015 9:22pm
A TV news crew member takes close-up video of a protest sign at a "Don't White-Out Our History" Rally outside the building where the State Board of Education was meeting in May 2010 in Austin to debate new social studies curricullum standards. The protestors were among numerous critics who said the board's conservative majority was watering down teaching of the civil rights movement and slavery
New Texas textbooks, tailored to state standards that downplay the role of slavery in the Civil War and omit mention of Jim Crow laws or the Ku Klux Klan, are drawing criticism again as the nation grapples with its racial history.
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