We’ve been fighting in court for months to stop the Department of Defense from censoring what students can learn – after they ripped almost 600 books from students’ shelves and altered curricula that the Trump administration doesn’t like. Ready to join the fight to protect students? Take action now.
The 596 impacted books include titles like Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and even AP Psychology prep books – books that do nothing more than challenge the worldview that the Trump administration is trying to force on our students.
A new bill in Congress would stop this censorship – restoring these books to DoD-run schools and libraries and preventing the Secretary of Defense from making any more of these changes unilaterally. We’re calling on our members of Congress to cosponsor this bill immediately.
Schools were ordered to remove any books “potentially related to gender ideology,” to immediately cancel cultural observances like Black History Month or Pride Month, and to censor curricula and educational materials that cover immigration, Black history, and sexuality and gender in a way that the Trump administration doesn’t like.
These removals are a clear attempt to force a political agenda at the expense of our students. But muzzling free speech and punishing schools for telling the history of this country doesn’t erase the truth – it just jeopardizes our students’ education.
President Trump continues to attack our students’ right to learn. With every attack, we’ll continue to meet him in court – and with the help of our ACLU community, we’ll take the fight to Congress, too.
Thanks for joining us as we fight for our students.
Together,
Emerson Sykes
Pronouns: He, him, his
Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
American Civil Liberties Union
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New York, NY 10004, USA