re: #123 No Malarkey!

I made the best interpretation I could of this bonkers demand and assumed the administrator meant a Holocaust denial book. But Hell, I don’t know, she might have wanted a copy of Mein Kampf in the classroom.

Back to Jonathan Kozol for a moment—he got fired from his first teaching job in 1965 for reading a poem to 4th graders by Langston Hughes:

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

They told him Hughes was too “inflamatory”