Like small pox and vinyl records, book banning is something many Americans like to think of as history. But according to the American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE), the practice persists. ABFE, which from its headquarters in White Plains fights book banning across the country, keeps a list of books challenged each year by American public […]
The History (and Present) of Banning Books in America
For the past three years, parts of the United States has grappled with an increase in controversy involving banning of books from schools and libraries. At least 20 states, mostly in the Great Plains and the Southeast, have passed on laws requiring schools and libraries to remove books that have to do with sexuality, violence, and some aspects of history that many advocates don’t want children to read.
Book banning is nothing new in America as it goes as far back as the time before the Civil War. A look at its history and origins in the article 👇.
🇺🇸 THE FLENSBURG FILES
THE FLENSBURG FILES 