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It makes mandatory the Library Bill of Rights published by the American Library Association. Governor J. B. Pritzker signed the law on June 12, 2023, and it took effect at the start of the following year. [46] A number of authors whose works were banned spoke out. Some saw it as a badge of honor, while others found it distressing.
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] 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.
Banned in the US in the 1930s until the early 1960s, seized by US Customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of Miller's work was also banned by the US. [285] Also banned in South Africa until the late 1980s. [286] The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Steinbeck: 1939 *Unknown* Novel Was temporarily banned in many places in the US.
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
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The book has been removed from at least six districts under Senate File 496, including in Norwalk, Urbandale and West Des Moines. Senate File 496 took effect July 1, and potential penalties for ...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain was listed by the American Library Association as the 5th most commonly banned book in the U.S. due to racism in 2007. [67] NewSouth Books received media attention for publishing an expurgated edition of the work that censored the words nigger and Injun .
Right in the midst of Banned Books Week, which concluded on Saturday, a children's novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district.