Right after I sent my thank-you note to this list, two of you posted messages about national organizations. Yes, there are national organizations involved in the drive against "Huck Finn" in Tempe. I mentioned the NAACP in my original message on 7/22. I see in the Arizona Republic for 5/27 that the Nation of Islam and the Urban League are also opposing the novel. In all the news coverage about the picketing and the complaint to the US Dept. of Education, only one Tempe parent has ever been mentioned as being involved. Mark Midbon