re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter

My question: do the Texas textbooks explain that Texas enforced Jim Crow laws, including barring intermarriage between races until Loving vs Virginia in 1967? Or is the Texas history of racism ignored in these books?

The State Board of Education last updated the standards in 2010, approving several requirements pushed by the board’s most conservative members, including teaching Texas high schoolers that Moses “informed the American founding documents.”

The board also decided that students should have to “compare and contrast” the First Amendment clause barring establishment of a state religion with the doctrine of the separation of church and state.

Now, the board will consider axing the 2010 standards and amending several others, like moving “slavery” to the head of a list of the causes of the Civil War. Currently, slavery comes in the middle of a the list that also includes states’ rights, sectionalism and protective tariffs.

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