When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball by Mark Weakland

She recounts growing up in the 1930’s in the village of Aubervilliers-aux-Bois, France. Nevertheless she proceeds, telling her grandson, “Those were dark times, but what stays with me is not the darkness but the light.” She agrees and then hesitates when he says he wants to ask her about when she was a little girl during World War II. He asks her if he can interview her for a school assignment. The book begins with a facetime conversation between a grandson and his grandmother. The book is 220 pages, divided into five chapters with a prologue and epilogue, and an informative author’s note and glossary. I decided to read “White Bird,” to see for myself. One parent complained that the book must be banned because it's 'biased' and could lead to the 'skewing of a young child's mind.' Palacio, about a Jewish girl living in France after Nazis seized power. In his biography of civil rights icon John Lewis, “The Truth is Marching On,” Jon Meacham reports that in 1960, a book featuring black rabbits and white rabbits was banned in Birmingham, Alabama.Īlso on the Texas parents’ list is the graphic novel “White Bird,” by R.J. The book includes reference to the racism that Olympian Wilma Rudolph encountered when she was a child in Tennessee in the 1940s.

One book in question is “When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball,” by Mark Weakland. Some of the parents took official steps to challenge the suitability of these books. Texas parents want 50 books banned from school libraries.

When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball by Mark Weakland