Among the first Culture War controversies that Weyrich and his associates participated in was the censorship of school textbooks. The Heritage Foundation joined the movement to suppress textbooks that spoke positively about the Civil Rights Movement. In 1974, a Texas school district was accused of promoting “documented communists” like Charlie Chaplin, Picasso, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A reference to the song “We Shall Overcome” was provided as evidence that Texas textbooks were “furthering Marxism.”
