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Fight for Acceptance. Book publishers, scenting big sales, are rushing to give ethnic groups a better break on their pages. The N.A.A.C.P.'s education director, June Shagaloff, says that 175 elementary and preschool books-mostly readers, health and science texts-now meet N.A.A.C.P. standards. But she complains that not enough school systems are buying them. Sales have been made mostly to schools in large northern cities, but the books are also in use in parts of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Publishers are so competitive that they commonly do not divulge sales; McGraw-Hill, however, reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Textbooks: Big Drive for Balance | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

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