Interviewer
Tim Mayo
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Description
This interview is one of a series conducted concerning the Kanawha County textbook controversy of 1974. This interview contains a subject index prepared by the interviewer. Steve Knighton was an educational administrator in Charleston, West Virginia. He discusses: his wife and family; his education (grade school, high school, and college); his employment history; historical information about 1974, which was the time of the Kanawha County textbook controversy; a brief section on his political views; Mary Alice Moore, a board member who objected to the textbooks; the textbooks themselves; the minority population and the desegregation of schools; sex education; some information about school policies that allow parents to remove children from classes they find offensive; motives behind the controversy; books parents found objectionable; the events of the controversy (including strikes, picket lines, and violence); a brief section on multiculturalism; the media reaction to the controversy; some information about the results of the controversy; school policies and Knighton's relationship to the school administration at the time; an outline of school policies about religious holidays; a short section on similar controversies elsewhere and the textbooks publishers' reactions; lessons he learned from the controversy; and other topics.
Publication Date
2007
Identifier
OH64-830
Type
Text
Comments
Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-830.
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Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the content creator, author, artist or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner.
Recommended Citation
Marshall University Special Collections, OH64-830, Huntington, WV.
Library of Congress Subjects
Knighton, Steve A., 1949- -- Autobiography.
Education -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Teachers -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Child rearing -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Women's studies -- Oral histories.