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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.
In 2023 alone, the American Library Association (ALA) documented 4,240 different book titles and argued that book banning efforts are a form of censorship. MORE: Texas residents sue county for ...
Publishers, authors fight against book censorship. Book banning has united some of the largest publishing houses in the U.S. In August, ... Arkansas and Texas school districts.
Hundreds of books have been challenged, including high-profile examples like Maus by Art Spiegelman and New Kid by Jerry Craft. The American Library Association documented 1,269 demands of book censorship in 2022. It was the highest the organization had ever recorded since it began collecting censorship data more than 20 years prior.
Book censorship is the act of some authority taking measures to suppress ideas and information within a book. ... The Journal Of Ecclesiastical History, 68(4), 825–827.
The North East Independent School District, just north of San Antonio, Texas, removed over 430 books from its shelves in December 2021, replacing them with “books on similar topics,” according ...
For example, in modern times, the Jim Crow-era South was a hotbed of censorship attempts, many led by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, hoping to ban books without sympathetic views to the ...
Mel and Norma Gabler were religious fundamentalists active in United States school textbook reform between 1961 and the 2000s based in Longview, Texas. [1]Norma Gabler started her foray into school book banning in 1961 when her son pointed out how the phrase "one nation under God" was missing from the Gettysburg Address, which inspired her to complain to the State Board of Education. [2]