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Book banning in the United States (2021–present) Starting in 2021, there have been a considerable number of books banned or challenged in parts of the United States. Most of the targeted books have to do with race, gender, and sexuality. Unlike most book challenges in the past, whereby parents or other stakeholders in the community would ...
256 [ 2] ISBN. 978-0-7653-8556-7. Ban This Book is a 2017 children's novel by Alan Gratz. Inspired by a viral Internet story from the mid-2010s, it tells of an African-American North Carolina girl student's fight against book censorship. Published in 2017 to positive reviews, it became the subject of its own May 2024 ban in a Florida school ...
The head librarian of the Kern County Free Library, Gretchen Knief, despite personally protesting to the supervisors, complied with the ban. The ban is said to have been largely a product of the county's reliance upon agriculture, and Knief's compliance, along with a lack of official support from librarians. The ban was rescinded in 1941. [61]
Requests to ban books at US public schools and libraries surged to a 21-year record in 2022, according to data from the American Library Association.. Last year, the ALA recorded 1,050 requests to ...
Sara Hayden Parris from Annie's Foundation distributes free banned books in Iowa to make challenged books more accessible during a Banned Book Wagon tour at Nevada Library on Wednesday, Nov. 15 ...
According to the Miami Herald, since July 2022, Florida has added more than 1,300 books to its book ban list, making it the state with the highest number of banned books. Texas came in second with ...
All of Zweig's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year. [124] Works Sigmund Freud: 1901–1933 Non-fiction All of Freud's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year. [124] The Iron Heel: Jack London: 1908 Novel Banned by the Nazis along with two other London novels, Martin Eden and The ...
This is a selected list of authors and works listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.The Index was discontinued on June 14, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. [1] [2]A complete list of the authors and writings present in the subsequent editions of the index are listed in J. Martinez de Bujanda, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1600–1966, Geneva, 2002.