[aisle] I am angry

[Ryan, Mrs.]

Ours as well and we are a grade school K-8.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:26 PM Andrea Ross via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Yes, our district received this as well and our librarians were asked to
> inform administration which of these books we had.
>
> Andrea Ross
> Salt Creek School
> Elmhurst, IL
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:19 PM BROOKE NELSON via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Hi BrianTrust,
>>
>> Please talk me down. I just got this request from my Sup. I looked up the
>> company and it is hugely problematic. Has anyone else gotten this? (See
>> below)
>>
>> *I am writing to you on behalf of LocalLabs which is an online
>> publication that reports on and informs the public about local government
>> activities. If you are not the FOIA officer please forward it to
>> the FOIA officer or reply to this email with the correct FOIA contact.*
>>
>> *Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, I
>> am requesting electronic records (preferably non-PDF such as CSV, Excel) of
>> the following:*
>>
>>    - *A list of all materials in your district that fall under the 1619
>>    project. *
>>
>> *For reference, the 1619 project contains works with the following titles
>> and authors: "America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It
>> One", essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones*
>>
>>    - *"American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the
>>    Plantation", essay by Matthew Desmond*
>>    - *"How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in
>>    Medicine Today", essay by Linda Villarosa*
>>    - *"What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of
>>    Slavery", essay by Jamelle Bouie*
>>    - *"Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?", essay by Wesley
>>    Morris*
>>    - *"How Segregation Caused Your Traffic Jam", essay by Kevin Kruse*
>>    - *"Why Doesn't America Have Universal Healthcare? One Word: Race",
>>    essay by Jeneen Interlandi*
>>    - *"Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery", essay by
>>    Bryan Stevenson*
>>    - *"The Barbaric History of Sugar in America", essay by Khalil Gibran
>>    Muhammad*
>>    - *"How America's Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder", essay by
>>    Trymaine Lee*
>>    - *"Their Ancestors Were Enslaved by Law. Now They're Lawyers", photo
>>    essay by Djeneba Aduayom, with text from Nikole Hannah-Jones and Wadzanai
>>    Mhute*
>>    - *"A New Literary Timeline of African-American History", a
>>    collection of original poems and stories*
>>       - *Clint Smith on the Middle Passage*
>>       - *Yusef Komunyakaa on Crispus Attucks*
>>       - *Eve L. Ewing on Phillis Wheatley*
>>       - *Reginald Dwayne Betts on the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793*
>>       - *Barry Jenkins on Gabriel's Rebellion*
>>       - *Jesmyn Ward on the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves*
>>       - *Tyehimba Jess on Black Seminoles*
>>       - *Darryl Pinckney on the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863*
>>       - *ZZ Packer on the New Orleans massacre of 1866*
>>       - *Yaa Gyasi on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment*
>>       - *Jacqueline Woodson on Sgt. Isaac Woodard*
>>       - *Joshua Bennett on the Black Panther Party*
>>       - *Lynn Nottage on the birth of hip-hop*
>>       - *Kiese Laymon on the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s “rainbow coalition”
>>       speech*
>>       - *Clint Smith on the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina*
>>
>>
>>    - *A list of all books written by authors Ibram X. Kendi (aka Henry
>>    Rogers) or Robin DiAngelo that are used in curriculum or libraries in your
>>    school district.*
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brooke Nelson
>> Library Media Specialist
>> East Peoria Community High School
>> 309.694.8338
>>
>> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
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Best regards,


Sydney Ryan
Emmons School District 33
Antioch, Illinois
847-395-1105 ex 221
sryan at emmons33.org
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