[aisle] I am angry

[Karrie Fisher]

District 31 -- Winkelman and Field Middle School got this FOIA.


Happily Ever After,
Karrie Fisher, Library Media Specialist
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*Winkelman Library Resources: Click HERE
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Winkelman School * 1919 Landwehr Road * Glenview, IL  60026
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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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