{"id":5585,"date":"2020-08-07T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T17:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=5585"},"modified":"2023-05-03T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:59:01","slug":"pride-the-story-of-harvey-milk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/pride-the-story-of-harvey-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/author\/\">2022 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/title\/\">2022 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/08\/pride-the-story-of-harvey-milk.jpg\" alt=\"pride: the story of harvy milk and the rainbow flag\" width=\"260\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=pride+the+story+of+harvey+milk&amp;te=&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\">Held at Cabell County Public Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p>A third-grader in the Murray City (UT) School District (MCSD) brought a copy of Kyle Lukoff\u2019s picture book <strong>Call Me Max<\/strong> to school. The student who owned the book wanted to share it with his class, so he asked his teacher to read it. Parents complained because the book was about a transgender child. The MCSD responded by suspending their Equity Book Bundle Program and Equity Council during Black History Month. Of the 38 books included in the Equity Book Bundle Program, only two were about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer\/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) community: <strong>Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag<\/strong> by Rob Sanders, for fifth graders, and <strong>Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History<\/strong> by Sarah Prager, for sixth graders. The primary focus of the Equity Council and book program was to help address race and racism by introducing students to authors who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Community members voiced their dismay that MCSD suspended their equity programs over an unrelated event in an effort to placate transphobic parents. \u201cI feel it sends a terrible message to the LGBTQ+ community to pause this council for an incident that has nothing to do with them,\u201d said Murray City District 1 Councilmember Kat Martinez. One parent wrote to the MCSD board that \u201cThese teachings in public schools are vital to increasing awareness and putting an end to bullying, depression, and suicide.\u201d  There is no timetable regarding when the Equity Book Bundle Program and Equity Council will be reinstated available from MCSD officials<\/p>\n<p>An online petition was directed to the superintendent and board of the Novi (MI) Community School District protesting the inclusion of \u201csensitive materials topics,\u201d defined as \u201cgender identity, sexuality and ideological activist behavior(s).\u201d Titles included <strong>Melissa<\/strong> by Alex Gino, <strong>Sparkle Boy<\/strong> by Lesl\u00e9a Newman, <strong>A is for Activist<\/strong> by Innosanto Nagara, <strong>Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag<\/strong> by Rob Sanders, <strong>The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane<\/strong> by Kate DiCamillo, Nicola Yoon\u2019s short story \u201cSuper Human,\u201d the poem \u201cThe Cost of Being a Girl\u201d by Denise Frohman, and the poem \u201cIf a Princess Tries to Kidnap Your Daughter\u201d by Carlos Andres Gomez. Also at issue was a concern about bullying of people who disagreed with each other. Among public comments at the board meetings, several trustees and district officials spoke on behalf of the district\u2019s efforts<br \/>\nto be more inclusive. The titles apparently have been retained.<\/p>\n<h2>2020<\/h2>\n<p>A parent of a Hanover County (VA) Public Schools student was upset that a teacher read this book to their seven-year-old daughter&#8217;s class, which she claimed encouraged her daughter to question her faith. Originally, the teacher stood by the civil rights lesson. But after the local TV station reached out to district officials, the principal sent a letter home to parents apologizing for the incident, and stating that the book had not been approved for the curriculum.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>May 3, 2023<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12639,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5585\/revisions\/12639"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}