Freedom Writer - April 1994

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TVC yanks short story from English curriculum

In mid-February, California state education officials removed a short 
story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker from a statewide 
English test after Lou Sheldon's Traditional Values Coalition complained 
it was "anti-religious." Walker's seven-page story "Roselily" is about 
the Mississippi wedding of a mother who questions marriage and religion. 

Acting state school superintendent Dave Dawson refused to comment 
on the decision, but Lou's wife Beverly was elated. "We're pleased 
and we're wondering what other stories might be in there," she said.

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