You Will Never Be One of Us : A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of...

by Timothy Paul Bowman

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You Will Never Be One of Us : A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism, Hardcover by Bowman, Timothy Paul; Woodward, Wayne (AFT), ISBN 0806190388, ISBN-13 9780806190389, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US During the spring semester of 1975, Wayne Woodward, a popular young English teacher at La Plata Junior High School in Hereford, Texas, was unceremoniously fired. His offense? Founding a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Believing he had been unjustly targeted, Woodward sued the school district. You Will Never Be One of Us chronicles the circumstances surrounding Woodward’s dismissal and the ensuing legal battle. Revealing a uniquely regional aspect of the cultural upheaval of the 1970s, the case offers rare insight into the beginnings of the rural-urban, local-national divide that continues to roil American politics. By 1975 Hereford, a quiet farming town in the Texas Panhandle, had become “majority minority,” and Woodward’s students were mostly the children of Mexican and Mexican American workers at local agribusinesses. Most townspeople viewed the ACLU as they did Woodward’s long hair and politics: as threatening a radical liberal takeover—and a reckoning for the town’s white power structure. Locals were presented with a choice: either support school officials who sought to rid themselves of a liberal troublemaker, or side with an idealistic young man whose constitutional rights might have been violated. In Timothy

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN: 9780806190389
• Condition: Fine

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