From the Raleigh, NC News & Observer:
The city library may add a videotape produced by the Ku Klux Klan to its collection if the tape doesn\’t violate copyright law. Klan members also mailed the tape to libraries in High Point, Winston-Salem and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, saying it was a protest against the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Skip Alston, the president of the state NAACP and a Guilford County commissioner, said adding the tape to any collection would insult blacks . . .
\”It\’s our whole mission to provide free and equal access to information,\” Library Director Sandy Neerman said. The city\’s policy on library materials says that items shouldn\’t be banned just because they might be unpopular or controversial.
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