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The novel follows young Naomi on a plantation in Faunsdale, Alabama, who kills her master after being told that her sister will be forced to take her mother’s place in a supervised rape by male slaves for the purpose of breeding. [40] Naomi escapes and takes refuge at a brothel. She escapes from there a few years later, pregnant by a white man.
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Pages in category "Children's books set in Alabama" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Dec. 2—Proposed rules pushed by Gov. Kay Ivey that would place various restrictions on "inappropriate" books for children, including where public libraries shelve them, amount to censorship ...
Last month, Florida’s Education Department released a list of about 300 books that school districts across the state removed from library shelves last school year. Dozens of the removed books ...
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a 1987 novel by American author Fannie Flagg.Set in Alabama, it weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home.
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.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 is a historical-fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis.First published in 1995 by Delacorte Press, it was reprinted in 1997. It tells the story of the Watsons, a lower middle class African-American family living in Flint, Michigan in the early 1960s from the perspective of Kenny Watson, the middle child of three.