January 14, 1993
MECC software program "Freedom!" video game pulled in MinnesotaShare
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John Biewen - Reporter, Anthony Lux - Interviewee, Dean Kephart - Interviewee
MPR’s John Biewen reports that Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (Corporation) has pulled MECC software program “Freedom!” video game after criticism from students and schools, finding it racially inappropriate. The program simulates the attempt by African slaves to escape from an 1830s southern plantation via the Underground Railroad.
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