The list of banned, censored, and challenged books is long and illustrious. “Decameron” (1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio, and “Canterbury Tales” (1476) by Geoffrey Chaucer were banned from U. S. mail because of the Federal Anti-Obscenity Law of 1873, known as the Comstock Law. That law “banned the sending or receiving of works containing ‘obscene, ‘filthy,’ […]
It’s back to school time and, in the latest effort of book banning, new state legislation will restrict literature allowed in Texas schools based on a vague rating system about sexual content.
Librarians are taking on an old role. They are defending the rights of readers and writers in the battles raging over censorship, book challenges and book bans.