Virginia District Removes Textbooks Over Claim About Black Confederate Soldiers

The Washington Post (10/24, Sieff) reports that Loudoun County, VA "school officials have decided to pull 'Our Virginia' from its fourth-grade classrooms because of its dubious claim about thousands of black soldiers fighting for the South during the Civil War." According to the Post, "The publisher has said it will provide a sticker to cover the disputed sentence in 'Our Virginia.' The state Board of Education, which approved the book, said this week that the claim about African Americans fighting for the Confederacy falls outside 'mainstream Civil War scholarship.'"