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Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy, Massachusetts.
Klein Independent School District, Texas - 19. The Central York School District tops the list, having banned 441 books that almost entirely focused on titles related to people of color in a school ...
In October 2021, Texas Representative Matt Krause distributed a list to Texas school superintendents containing 850 books having to do with race, sexuality, and history which might "make students feel discomfort". [58] Most of the books' authors are women, people of color, or LGBTQ.
Scrutiny of books in schools intensified in Texas last year, as state Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, chairman of the House Committee on General Investigating, requested that superintendents ...
Klein Independent School District, Texas - 19. The Central York School District tops the list, having banned 441 books that almost entirely focused on titles related to people of color in a school ...
"With 10,000 school book bans and counting in the 2023-2024 school, we have to take stock of the harm censorship imposes on those most affected—the students," Sabrina Baeta, researcher and ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
A Washington Post analysis of 986 books challenged in school libraries between 2021 and 2022 found that nearly 42% of the books challenged had LGBTQ+ themes or characters and 28% had characters of ...