TAMPA -- The Hillsborough County branch of the NAACP is opening a "Freedom Library" for school-age students.
A teachers' union, the American Federation of Teachers, is donating one thousand books. The union has pledged more than a million books natrionwide, in a campaign that began during the pandemic.
Fedrick Ingram is Secretary and Treasurer of AFT. He says the library will offer students the opportunity to obtain books where they can "see themselves" and offer a cultural representation of who they are. Ingram says some of the books will include titles "banned" by Governor DeSantis, who has said that the notion of widespread book bans in Florida are a hoax.
The library is at Beulah Baptist Institutional Church on West Cypress Street in Tampa.
Listen to an interview with Fedrick Ingram below:
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