…Moms for Liberty took issue with the Wit and Wisdom curriculum for Second Grade, pointing specifically to three books and the teacher manuals accompanying them: “Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington,” “Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story” and “The Story of Ruby Bridges.”

Bridges was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

The movement claimed that the books and teacher manuals taught that “people of color continue to be oppressed by an oppressive ‘angry, vicious, scary, mean, loud, violent, [rude] and [hateful]’ white population and teaches that the racial injustice of the 1960s exists today.”

The movement also claimed that second graders were being exposed to a “high level of manipulation” by the educational material on the civil rights movement, which it said “focuses repeatedly and daily on very dark and divisive slivers of American history…without highlighting the positive achievements, like unity and the overall improvement of our country.”

“The relentless nature of how these divisive stories are taught, the lack of historical context and difference in perspective, and the manipulative pedagogy all work together to amplify and sow feelings of resentment, shame of one’s skin color and/or fear,” wrote Moms for Liberty in the complaint.

The movement did not specify what “different perspective” concerning the civil rights movement they felt was lacking.

The complaint pointed to a number of specific issues in the books and teacher manuals which it claimed were examples of “explicit and implicit indoctrination,” including photos showing examples of racial discrimination, such as white firemen blasting black children with firehoses and segregated water fountains, and teaching instructions, such as emphasizing how the N word is still used as a racial slur and using word injustice to describe racial discrimination…