PHOENIX—In the wood-paneled chamber of the Arizona House of Representatives, facing canvases depicting scenes of the Grand Canyon and other Southwestern themes, Republican House Speaker Russell “Rusty” Bowers presided on a recent Thursday morning over a special gathering. There were students, teachers and clergy, and among them a handful of extraordinary activists: all elderly and frail, all wearing matching black baseball caps with yellow lettering that read “Holocaust Survivor.”
They had come for the opening of an exhibition on the Holocaust in the adjacent Old State Capitol, but they were also there to lend their voices to a new bill, one that would require Arizona public schools to teach the Holocaust.
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