Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, […] was challenged in Dallas, TX in 1974 for depicting a “depressing view of life” and “immoral situations.”
The Millions – Google+ – In honor of +Banned Books Week we’ll be looking at authors….
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Banned Books Week, 2013: North Carolina School District bans Invisible Man | MobyLives
A school board in North Carolina has decided to erase Ralph Ellison‘s Invisible Man from its reading lists and library shelves following a parental complaint which claimed, among other things, that the book was not “innocent†enough for “young children.â€
North Carolina School District bans Invisible Man | MobyLives.
Banned Books Week, 2013: Talking With Rainbow Rowell About Censorship
A group of high school librarians in Minnesota loved Eleanor & Park so much that they chose it as their school district’s summer read, giving all their high school students the option to read it – and invited Rowell to come visit the Minneapolis-area schools and the local public library this fall.
But there are some who do not love it, not even a little bit, not even at all.
Half Of The United States Lives In 146 Counties
Using Census data, [it has been determined] that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000.
Half Of The United States Lives In These Counties – Business Insider.
The Cost of Censorship in Libraries: 10 Years Under the Children’s Internet Protection Act
EFF says:
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the enforcement of the Children’s Internet Protection Act, CIPA, which brought new levels of Internet censorship to libraries across the country. The law is supposed to encourage public libraries and schools to filter child pornography and obscene or “harmful to minors†images from the library’s Internet connection in exchange for continued federal funding. Unfortunately, as Deborah Caldwell-Stone explains in Filtering and the First Amendment, aggressive interpretations of this law have resulted in extensive and unnecessary censorship in libraries, often because libraries go beyond the legal requirements of CIPA when implementing content filters. As a result, students and library patrons across the country are routinely and unnecessarily blocked from accessing constitutionally protected websites.