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Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [123] 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".
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.
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 ...
The United States has a long history with book banning, and it’s not only picking up steam in 2022—it’s also becoming more problematic. The post What Is Book Banning and How Does It Affect ...
The censorship efforts have… The nonprofit free expression organization Pen America estimated in April that since 2021, more than 1,500 books have been banned in 86 school districts across 26 ...
Banned Books Week this year is from Sept. 22-28. It's usually held during the last week of September. The theme of this year's event, according to the ALA, is " Freed Between the Lines ."
In her Washington Post analysis, Valerie Strauss contextualized the bans in the history of book censorship in the United States, dating back to charges of blasphemy in 1650 against William Pynchon's The Meritorious Price on Our Redemption, and spanning The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the Harry Potter books, which were the most ...
Chicago has a decadeslong history of fighting book banning. It was the first public library in the country to issue an intellectual freedom statement in 1936, even before the ALA’s Library Bill ...