Moore gains support from community members, who help her distribute fliers containing lines from the controversial books. After three hours of testimony from supporters and critics, the board formally adopts the texts on a 3-2 vote. Eight pieces of supplemental material, considered the most objectionable, are deleted. Members of the anti-textbook group Christian American Parents picket and boycott all Heck's Inc. businesses because Russell Isaacs, one of three board members in favor of the books, was an official there. A new protest group, Concerned Citizens, is formed.
Members meet and decide to boycott school until the textbooks are removed.
Almost 25 percent of the county's 45,000 students do not report on the first day of school. Most who stay home are from the East Bank-DuPont area. About 2,000 attend an anti-textbook rally at Campbells Creek. People picket businesses and plants in the upper Kanawha Valley. Coal operators obtain a temporary restraining order prohibiting picketing.