By Jule B. Warren
Raleigh, July 30—The numerous protests from chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy against the use of Muzzey’s history of the United States today caused representatives of the department of education to call attention to the fact that this book does not have to be used in the schools, unless the local school authorities decide to use it. The history was adopted as one of four histories of the United States which might be used in the high schools of North Carolina.
The protests from the daughters of the Confederacy, which have come to the attention of newspaper men are general in their nature, the objection being raised to certain expressions used by the author in discussing the civil war period of our history. So far as is known there is no objection to the general treatment of the civil war, but some of the chapters of the history are unfair to the Southern cause and not truly representative of the spirit of those trying days. The protests have come to the Governor, it is said, to the members of the high school text book commission and to the Department of Education.
The offending history is published by Ginn & Co., and was adopted by the high school text book commission in 1920 as one of four American histories which might be used in the public schools of North Carolina.
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From The Charlotte News, July 30, 1921
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