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=** Multicultural Literature News ** =

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 to have multicultural literature available in every classroom an library.
====Identifying authentic, reliable multicultural books should be the goal of teachers and ====

====The initial push for multicultural literature began with African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. ==== ==== This push was started again in the 1980s by Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, women, ==== ==== handicapped people, etc. These groups have previously been overlooked in literature but that ==== ==== is changing due to the literature being written that has these minority groups as the main ==== ====characters and the setting revolving around places and issues that impact their lives. ====

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