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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/us/florida-textbooks-african-american-history.html

The New York Times reports...

In an attempt to cater to Florida, at least one publisher made significant changes to its materials, walking back or omitting references to race, even in its telling of the Rosa Parks story.

NYT shows how the textbook originally stated: "The law said African Americans had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down"

then changed to a more indirect draft version

"She was told to move to a different seat because of the color of her skin"

to finally

"She was told to move to a different seat"

with no explanation of why she was told to move

If I'm reading the NYT article correctly, the textbook publisher backpedalled back to the "color of her skin" version and pulled the completely whitewashed version from review by the state when they reached out for comment on this story but this is exactly the kind of effect DeSantis and the GOP are trying to get from publishers, threatening them into "self-censoring" to comply with these laws.