Melissa Gilbert, the actress who played Laura Ingalls Wilder on Little House on the Prairie, wrote about the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) decision to change the name of the Wilder Award to the Children's Literature Legacy Award—and the accusations of racism against the Ingalls family, particularly Laura's mother, Caroline—with a post on her Facebook page that "included a link to a news story on the ALSC decision. Calling this a "teachable moment," Gilbert writes that Caroline and others were prejudiced and feared the Native Americans who "fought brutally," before saying they were fighting back against atrocities committed upon them. She stressed the importance of discussing this history so not to repeat it. Meanwhile, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy & Research Association has responded as well. "We stand by our board’s consensus position that the legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, though encumbered with the perspectives of racism that were representative of her time and place, also includes overwhelmingly positive contributions to children’s literature that have touched generations past and will reach into the future," the organization wrote in a letter to its members on its website. "We believe it is not beneficial to the body of literature to sweep away her name as though the perspectives in her books never existed. Those perspectives are teaching moments to show generations to come how the past was and how we, as a society, must move forward with a more inclusive and diverse perspective."   Read Gilbert's full post: