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"If we continue to make black children nonpersons by excluding them from books and by degrading the black experience, and if we continue to neglect white children by not exposing them to any aspect of other racial and ethnic experiences in a meaningful way, we will have a next racial crisis."

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Walter Dean Myers

November 9, 1986, the late great Walter Dean Myers wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times titled CHILDREN’S BOOKS; ‘I Actually Thought We Would Revolutionize the Industry’. This quote was from that piece nearly 30 years ago. And here we are, facing a serious racial crisis. Things have to change.

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