The Mississippi governor is calling for a “Patriotic Education Fund,” which declares that “the United States is the greatest country in the history of the world.”

He promises to reward schools that combat the “revisionist history” that is “poisoning a generation.”


The language from the Mississippi governor echoes legislation proposed in Arkansas in 2017, which would have banned books by Howard Zinn in public schools. Teachers and librarians throughout the state responded with a resounding no to censorship, and the bill failed to get out of committee.

With more than 400 teachers in Mississippi signed up at the Zinn Education Project to access our people’s history lessons, the governor’s budget will face a similar challenge.

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