Tennessee Tea Party ‘Demands’ That References To Slavery Be Removed From History Textbooks

By Marie Diamond on Jan 23, 2012 at 11:00 am

In 2010, the conservatives who controlled the Texas Board of Education caused an uproar when they made radical changes to the history curriculum for the state’s 4.8 million public school students. The changes included referring to the country’s first black president as “Barack Hussein Obama,” and requiring students to “contrast” Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ inaugural address with Abraham Lincoln’s philosophical views.