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Illinois enacted the nation's first state law to restrict the ability of local libraries to enact book bans. The law withholds state funding from any library that bans books for "partisan or doctrinal" reasons. It makes mandatory the Library Bill of Rights published by the American Library Association.
It's Banned Books Week, an annual effort by the American Library Association to raise awareness about censorship.. Each year, the ALA creates a top 10 list of the most challenged books filed by ...
Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [115] Founded by first amendment and library activist Judy Krug and the Association of American Publishers in 1982, the event aims to bring banned books "to the attention of the American public".
Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges. Research suggests that for each challenge reported there are as many as four or five which go unreported. [6] The list is sorted alphabetically by default.
What the reports do not quantify is the collateral damage of book bans, or so-called soft censorship, when a title is excluded, removed or limited before it is explicitly banned, out of fear of ...
The state’s Attorney General’s office later walked back its investigation, but for Johnson, an author who primarily writes about people of color and the LGBTQ experience, the damage had been done.
The American Library Association publishes a list of the top "Banned and Challenged Books" for any given year. [21] The American Library Association also organizes a "Banned Books Week", which is "an annual event celebrating the freedom to read." [21] The goal of the project is to bring awareness to banned books and promote the freedom to learn ...
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