Cartoon showing lynching, KKK member given to Ga. students

ATLANTA (AP) Fulton County schools officials say the district has launched a review after a political cartoon depicting a lynching and white supremacists was distributed to an eighth grade history class.

Parents at River Trail Middle School in Johns Creek spoke out about a political cartoon suggesting that freedom was worse for black people than slavery.

Fulton County schools spokeswoman Susan Hale says the cartoon was selected from a pool of curriculum offered by the state, but was not presented with students in a culturally sensitive way. Hale says district officials also realize the cartoon was distributed without proper context for the material.

Hale says the teacher who used the material for a class on the Civil War and Reconstruction is not facing disciplinary action from the district.