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FULL VIDEO: Mom calls out textbook publisher for interpreting slavery as immigration

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Sunday, October 4, 2015
Texas mom calls out book publisher

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Book publishing giant McGraw-Hill is saying it will rewrite a textbook after a Pearland mother voiced concerns on YouTube about the portrayal of slaves as immigrant "workers" in her son's school book.

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