[aisle] I am angry

Todd Freer TFreer at zion6.org
Mon Sep 20 19:00:46 CDT 2021 

I saw this article the other day. Just wondering if this is a possible reason for the email?

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/1619-freedom-school-literacy-program-tackles-racial-opportunity-gaps/2021/09
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Creator of 1619 Project Launching After-School Literacy Program<https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/1619-freedom-school-literacy-program-tackles-racial-opportunity-gaps/2021/09>
A new Black history-focused literacy program has launched in Iowa and will make its curriculum available nationwide as a free, open-source online tool in 2022. Led by Nikole Hannah-Jones, lead ...
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Todd Freer

Library Media Specialist

East Elementary School
2913 Elim Avenue, Zion, IL, 60099

847.379.0156 • 847.872.8130 (fax)

www.zion6.org<http://www.zion6.org/>

Currently reading:
Bea Is For Blended - Lindsey Stoddard
Currently Listening to:
The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
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I wonder if they sent this out to all the schools in Illinois?  I can see why you are angry!

Brooke Fleuette
Mercer County High School Library

Currently reading:  Displacement by Kiki Hughes
Currently listening to: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

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We did as well, but our CO is working on the list.



Jeannine McDonald

LMC Director

Fabyan Elementary

Geneva, IL 60134

630-444-8600




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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 < [ mailto:aisle at list.railslibraries.info | 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

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