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Board of Education votes unanimously to purchase 325 new textbooks. Following meeting Alice Moore raises first objection to the books.
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Parents, teachers, and community members opposed to the books begin to organize protests
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Approximately 1,000 people attend BOE meeting in an attempt to prevent the purchase of books.
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Throughout the month of August different groups form to protest the books and those that support them
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Throughout the month of August different groups form to protest the books and those that support them
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First day of school. Almost 25% of the student population is reported as absent. Close to 2,000 people attend an anti-textbook rally in Campbell's Creek.
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An estimated 3,500 coal miners begin a wildcat strike to support the anti-book faction. Plants and businesses throughout the county are picketed in the upper Kanawha Valley
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A preliminary injunction is issued preventing protesters from disrupting school.
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US Marshals arrest three women for being in contempt of the injunction.
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Charleston city bus system was shutdown leaving 11,000 customers without public transportation. Governor Arch Moore asks all parties to come to an agreement.
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Board Of Education begins to remove books from classrooms awaiting review.
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Schools are closed and all activates are cancelled in hopes of calming the citizens down. This did not work
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A truck driver for UPS is shot as he attempted to go to work in Rand by a pro-book advocate. Two anti-book protesters are arrested for smashing windshields.
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Schools are reopened
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Ezra Graley leads 500 protesters to the Board Of Education offices and the State Capitol. A lawsuit is filed to prevent the use of the books in federal court.
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Eleven men are arrested for picketing in violation of Judge Goad's injunction. Among those arrested are the Reverends Graley and Quigley.
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School attendance rises to 90% in the county.
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Five hundred protesters meet at Watt Powell Park to decide their next move. Horan and Hill favor a return to work and Graley favors the boycott to continue. Nothing is decided, the boycott and protests continue,
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During a rally Graley and Quigley push for the boycott to continue.
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A group of 18 people were impaneled, coming to be known as the Citizens Review Committee, to review the books and return with recommendations.
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After being arrested with 17 other protesters the day before, Graley is sentenced to sixty days and fined $1,500; three of the women arrested with him are sentence to thirty days and fined $500.
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Wet Branch Elementary and Midway Elementary are damaged in separate explosions.
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Six of the eighteen members of the Citizens Review Committee break from the main group over disagreement about the texts.
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President Albert Anson resigns from school board
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Chandler Elementary is damaged by Molotov cocktails
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A car belonging to one of the three women arrested on October 7th is set on fire.
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Loudendale Elementary is firebombed.
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A school bus with no children on board is shot at five times as it began its morning run. No one was injured
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Attendance is the lowest since the beginning of the school year
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Midway Elementary is damaged by dynamite.
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Textbook supporters stage a march through downtown Charleston.
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Approximately 4,000 anti-textbook marchers travel from the Charleston Civic Center to the Capitol.
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An estimated fifteen sticks of dynamic exploded outside the Board Of Education office after the regular scheduled meeting.
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Following the Board Of Education's decision to return most of the books to the classroom, about 2,000 protesters rallied in Charleston in hopes of changing the decision.
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School buses are reportedly shot by shotguns.
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A brief melee erupts at the end of the regular business meeting of the Board Of Education. Five school officials are assaulted.
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Horan is indicted along with five others by a federal grand jury on conspiracy charges in relation to explosions at area schools. This effectively ends organized protest of the textbooks.
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Horan is sentenced to three years following his conviction on conspiracy charges for his part in the bombing of Midway Elementary.