
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 12, 1994                   TAG: 9403120102
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SACRAMENTO, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

CALIF. REVERSES BAN ON RESPECTED AUTHORS

School officials reversed themselves Friday and allowed a story by Alice Walker that had been criticized by religious fundamentalists to be used on student tests.

At a hearing Friday, several speakers accused the state Board of Education of racial bias in banning the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning black writer.

In addition to Walker's story, "Roselily," the board also reversed its ban on two other stories. One was also by Walker and the other, by Annie Dillard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and alumnus of Hollins College. - Associated Press

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