2021 Banned Books Presenntation

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Banning a book is
when a person or
group decides that a book
is so inappropriate in
some way that NO ONE
should read the b...

An individual or group files a formal challenge
with a school or library, requesting that a book
or material be removed
Th...

In 2020, there were 237 (337 in 2019) REPORTED
challenges. “A challenge is defined as a formal,
written complaint, filed w...

Books usually are challenged to protect
others, frequently children, from
difficult ideas and information.
Most librarians...

Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging...

Books provide education on a wide variety of
subjects and the opportunity to have an
experience vicariously
Without a wide...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging...

Without examples such as Maya Angelou’s
experiences in her childhood (I know why the
Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou), ho...

In other words, reading
is an opportunity to
experience an event
without actually living
through it.

Parents and teachers are responsible for helping you
select reading materials while they are still responsible
for you. Bu...

Parents—”have the right and the
responsibility to restrict the access of
their children—and only their
children—to library...

Banned from public libraries in
Wisconsin, Gwinnett County, Georgia,
and Leon County Florida
Objections: semi-pornographic...

Offensive language, religious questions
Johnny Wheelwright lives in New
Hampshire with his mom. Johnny never
knew who his ...

Offensive language
(Banned at the time of
publication in many
places in the South
because of it’s anti-
slavery theme and ...

Ordered BURNED
in East St. Louis for
indecency and
obscenity—it
actually was
restricted to adults
only instead of being
bu...

Banned in a number
of places over the
years because of
objections to the
language used and
the perception that
the book pr...

Fahrenheit 451 is
about book burning
and the effect that
banning or censoring
books has on a
society.

Many have objected to
the “magical content” in
this book, claiming it
promotes witchcraft and
evil content. (Katherine
Pat...

Many have objected
to the “magical
content” in this book,
and the other Harry
Potter books, claiming
it promotes witchcraf...

In 1977 the Ku Klux
Klan demanded this
book be removed from
school libraries in
South Carolina and
burned because it
conta...

2014: Pensacola, Florida.
This book was banned for
promoting ‘hacker culture’
and discussing ‘sex and
sexuality’. The auth...

Banned in 2010 in
California because it
contained a definition
of “oral sex.”

This book was
banned because there
is a wine bottle in the
basket on the cover of
the book. Some
people believed the
book ...

This book was
banned for
encouraging
inappropriate
behavior: eating
worms and gambling

Banned for
inappropriate content,
promotion of
cannibalism (The poem
Dreadful)

Banned in some
schools and libraries
because of
‘inappropriate
pictures’ (beach
page—some of our
English students
found it...

Banned in some
schools and libraries
in California and
because of content
about the logging
industry—
“criminalizes the
fo...

1. George / Alex Gino (transgender character-Scholastic)
2. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram Kendi and Jason
...

Black Beauty / Anna Sewell
Hop on Pop / Dr. Seuss (violence to parents-
Toronto, 2014)
The Bible
Animal Farm / George Orwe...

In 2012 a middle
school teacher in
Aiken, SC nearly faced
criminal charges for
reading Ender’s Game
aloud. The teacher was...

COURT CASES
(FOUNDATIONS OF FREE SPEECH)
Evans v. Selma Union High School District of Fresno
County, 222 P. 801 (Ca. 1924)...

COURT CASES
(FOUNDATIONS OF FREE SPEECH)
Rosenberg v. Board of Education of City of New York, 92 N.Y.S.2d
344 (Sup. Ct. Ki...

COURT CASES
(FOUNDATIONS OF FREE SPEECH)
Minarcini v. Strongsville (Ohio) City School District, 541
F.2d 577 (6th Cir. 197...

STEPHEN KING
(AUTHOR OF CARRIE,
CUJO, AND OTHERS)
 ”When a book is banned, a whole set of
thoughts is locked behind the a...

LAURIE HALSE
ANDERSON
(AUTHOR OF SPEAK)
A guy named Richard Swier in Florida thinks
that SPEAK is "child pornography."
I w...

JEFF SMITH
(AUTHOR OF BONE
SERIES)
“The point, is that they
are trying to take away
someone else’s ability to
choose what...

CORY DOCTOROW
(AUTHOR OF LITTLE
BROTHER)
 I think that it's a pity that I'm not going to get a
chance to do that (discuss...

NEIL GAIMAN
(AUTHOR OF
NEVERWHERE)
 “Well-meaning adults can
easily destroy a child’s love
of reading. Stop them
reading ...

IN THE NEWS…
 May, 2015--Couer d’Alene, Idaho: Parents request that the
book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck be banned ...

Exercise your rights! Read a banned book today
Talk to your neighbors about why everyone should be allowed to
choose for t...

SOURCES:
•Book Cover Images from: Alibris www.alibris.com
•Court Case citations from The American Library Association, Not...

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