<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1edb23ac-59cf-40d8-9485-885d3ede8f60/1F1FE53E-221A-40D1-BCA9-5963AACCF946/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.examiner.com/x-5445-Politics-in-Education-Examiner~y2009m7d9-Conservatives-in-Texas-want-to-forget-civil-rights-leaders" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-5445-Politics-in-Education-Examiner~y2009m7d9-Conservatives-in-Texas-want-to-forget-civil-rights-leaders" style="font-size: 11px;">www.examiner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-5445-Politics-in-Education-Examiner~y2009m7d9-Conservatives-in-Texas-want-to-forget-civil-rights-leaders"><P>Would a social studies curriculum be complete if the stories of civil rights leaders like Cesar Chavez or Thurgood Marshall were excluded? After all, the central goal of social studies is to demonstrate how societies have progressed and changed throughout the decades. Discrimination and segregation would still be the norm without those who fought for against it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-5445-Politics-in-Education-Examiner~y2009m7d9-Conservatives-in-Texas-want-to-forget-civil-rights-leaders"><P>Mexicans and African Americans were not the only minority groups that Barton and Marshall attacked. They have issues with women's rights, and those who have fought for equality among sexes. These despicable people <SPAN class="vitstorybody"><SPAN class="vitstorybody">want Texas to erase Anne Hutchinson's name from social studies books. She was a New England pioneer and early advocate of women's rights and religious freedom, who was tried and banished from her Puritan colony in Massachusetts because of her nontraditional views.</SPAN></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1F1FE53E-221A-40D1-BCA9-5963AACCF946/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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