An order from Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office demanded a purge of books disparaging racism while keeping those that defend white power, a new report said.
New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush wrote Friday that the Maya Angelou memoir that details her life of racism and trauma has been removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library.
Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" has two copies in the library.
Another book that has been taken out is Janet Jacobs’s “Memorializing the Holocaust,” which explores how female victims of the Holocaust are remembered.
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The report said that books like "The Camp of the Saints," which has been embraced by white supremacists, and "The Bell Curve," which argues Black people are genetically less intelligent, are two books that also remain in the library.
The people who made the decisions about the books in the library weren't instructors or even students, but political appointees in the Department of the Navy's leadership, the Times said.
"Antiracists were targeted, laying bare the contradictions in the assault on so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies," wrote Thush.
“Initially, officials searched the Nimitz Library catalog, using keyword searches, to identify books that required further review,” said Navy spokesman Commander Tim Hawkins in a statement.
“Approximately 900 books were identified during the preliminary search. Departmental officials then closely examined the preliminary list to determine which books required removal to comply with directives outlined in executive orders issued by the president," he continued.
“This effort ultimately resulted in nearly 400 books being selected for removal from the Nimitz Library collection,” he added.
Read more books that have been thrown out and kept here.
