Miami school board wants to ban book on Cuba
MSNBCPosted: June 7th, 2007 by R. Lee Wrights
“Civil-liberties lawyers Wednesday defended a book about Cuba that omits references to Fidel Castro’s communist government, as a judge asked them to compare the work to a hypothetical book about Adolf Hitler that didn’t mention the Holocaust. The discussion came as the Miami-Dade County School District asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for permission to remove 49 copies of ‘Vamos a Cuba’ and its English-language version, ‘A Visit to Cuba,’ from its libraries. The board argues that the books, for children ages 5 to 8, present an inaccurate view of life in Cuba.” (06/06/07)
