A youth group is distributing hundreds of copies of Toni Morrisons Beloved and Art Spiegelmans Maus in response to Republican-led attacks on those and other books about racism in schools nationwide.

Voters of Tomorrow, a youth-led political nonprofit, plans to give out about 400 copies of the Pulitzer Prize-winning books to public high school students in Austin, Texas, and Fairfax, Virginia, next week. In time, they are hoping to expand their efforts to other locations.

In a news release Wednesday, the group said it was fighting back against the far-rights attempts to eliminate essential pieces of history and literature from our school curricula. Spokesperson Jack Lobel said the group aims to counter politicians crusading against students right to a well-rounded and accurate historical education.

Republican governors in Texas and Virginia have supported the removal of books on race and other issues from classrooms.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin featured in one of his campaign videos last year a GOP activist who wanted to ban Beloved from the Fairfax school district. On his first day in office , Youngkin issued an executive order demanding the review of materials for public schools to identify those that promote or endorse divisive or inherently racist concepts and defining as divisive the idea that an individual, by virtue of his or her race, skin color, ethnicity, sex or faith, is racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously.

In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott wrote to the state association of school boards last year, warning against pornographic or obscene books in school libraries, shortly after GOP state lawmakers targeted books with LGBTQ themes on such grounds. An NBC report found that across the state, hundreds of books had been pulled from school libraries for review after conservative parents and officials pushed to ban books on race, sexuality and gender.

There have been Republican-led efforts to ban books from school libraries across the country.

Last week, a local school board in Tennessee banned Maus, a book about the horrors of the Holocaust , citing concerns about objectionable language and nudity. Earlier this month, a school board in Missouri removed Morrisons The Bluest Eye, about American racism in the 1940s, from its high school libraries.