tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10113217040854456042024-02-20T08:52:57.671-08:00Banned Books DisplayFirst, the Tucson School District went after the Mexican American Studies Program. Now, it's going after its books.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011321704085445604.post-15751200870642102002012-05-07T17:48:00.000-07:002012-05-07T17:50:53.662-07:00List of Books Used in the Mexican American Program at Tucson, AZ<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A comprehensive set of links to the American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) coverage of the Arizona law that led to the shutdown of the Mexican American Studies Program in Arizona and the subsequent banning of books used in the program. It will be updated as the coverage continues.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Arizona, Tucson school district officials have released a list of books to be banned from the school system following last week’s vote to suspend the district’s acclaimed Mexican American Studies program due to a state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The banned books initially included "Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years," edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson; Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest"; "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire; "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos" by Rodolfo Acuña; and "Chicano!: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement" by F. Arturo Rosales. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later, the list was expanded. Tucson school district officials ordered to confiscate teaching materials, artwork, posters, and more books. Officials said the books were not banned, but the confiscation happened – in some cases, in front of the students – involved more than 50 books. The books are “not banned” (but merely “confiscated”). They have been removed from the classrooms and boxed. It’s as if the presence of these books inside classrooms constitutes a distraction or bad influence. Apparently, students should not be able to even see those books in the classrooms. They include: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The MAS-TUSD curriculum comprises some 50 books. All have been or are being removed or confiscated from every classroom; teachers are being told to turn in the books that have not been “confiscated”. This might strike the average person as odd: it’s as if the presence of these books inside classrooms constitutes a distraction or bad influence. Apparently, students should not be able to even see those books in the classrooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teachers have also been informed to stay away from any books where "race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ENGLISH/LATINO LITERATURE 7 & 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ten Little Indians</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S. Alexie</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fire Next Time</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. Baldwin</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loverboys</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. Castillo</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women Hollering Creek</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S. Cisneros</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mexican WhiteBoy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M. De La Pena</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drown</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. Diaz</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Woodcuts of Women</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D. Gilb</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E. Guevara</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Color Lines: "Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?"</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E. Martinez</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R. Montoya et al.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let Their Spirits Dance</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S. Pope Durate</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M. Ruiz</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Tempest</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">W Shakespeare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R. Takaki</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Devil's Highway</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">L.A. Urrea</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N. Saporta Sternbach</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J Yolen</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Voices of a People's History of the United States</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H. Zinn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ENGLISH/LATINO LITERATURE 5 & 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Live from Death Row</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. Abu-Jamal</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S. Alexie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zorro</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I. Allende</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">G. Anzaldua</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Place to Stand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. S. Baca</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. S. Baca</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Healing Earthquakes: Poems</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. S. Baca</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. S. Baca</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black Mesa Poems</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. S. Baca</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martin & Mediations on the South Valley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. S. Baca</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D. C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drink Cultura: Chicanismo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. A Burciaga</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Far From God</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Castillo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Address to the Commonwealth Club of California</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C. E. Chavez</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women Hollering Creek</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S. Cisneros</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">House on Mango Street</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S. Cisneros</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. Diaz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suffer Smoke</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E. Diaz Bjorkquist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zapata's Discipline: Essays</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martin Espada</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like Water for Chocolate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">L. Esquievel</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Living was a Labor Camp</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D. Garcia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R. Garcia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cantos Al Sexto Sol: Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C. Garcia-Camarilo, et al</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Magic of Blood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D. Gilb</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rudulfo "Corky" Gonzales</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to "No Child Left Behind"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Goodman, et al.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feminism is for Everbody</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B. Hooks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R. Jimenez</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J. Kozol</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zigzagger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M. Munoz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T. D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T. Rivera</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always Running - La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">L. Rodriguez</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Justice: A Question of Race</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R. Rodriguez</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The X in La Raza II</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R. Rodriguez</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crisis in American Institutions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Los Tuconenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T. Sheridan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Curandera</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carmen Tafallo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mexican American Literature</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C. M. Tatum</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Chicana/Chicano Writing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C. M. Tatum</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Civil Disobedience</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H. D. Thoreau</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the Lake of Sleeping Children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">L. A. Urrea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">L. A. Urrea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zoot Suit and Other Plays</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">L. Valdez</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O. Zepeda</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OTHER BANNED BOOKS</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bless Me Ultima</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rudolfo Anaya</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yo Soy Joaquin/ I Am Joaquin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rodolfo Gonzales</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Into the Beautiful North</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luis Alberto Urrea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Devil's Highway</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luis Alberto Urrea</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011321704085445604.post-78454034360658212632012-03-17T13:40:00.000-07:002012-03-17T13:40:44.700-07:00Medieval Europe Banned Book Burning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Mark Twain
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word "nigger," which appears many times in the novel, was the cause for the removal of this classic from an eighth-grade reading list. In the 1950s, the NAACP objected to the book's perceived racist tone. In 1984, the book was removed from a public high school reading list in Waukegan, Illinois, because a black alderman found the book's language offensive.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1978, an Eldon, Missouri library banned the dictionary because it contained 39 "objectionable" words. And, in 1987, the Anchorage School Board banned the dictionary for similar reasons, i.e., having slang definitions for words such as "bed," "knocker," and "balls."
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andersonville (1955)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by MacKinlay Kantor
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1956, this story of a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War, was viciously attacked throughout the U.S. It was banned in Amarillo, TX.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Annie on My Mind
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Olathe, Kansas school system ordered all copies of this book removed from high school library shelves. It is a story of two women who meet and fall in love and struggle with declaring their homosexuality to family and friends.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I Lay Dying (1932)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by William Faulkner
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1986, Graves County, Kentucky, the school board banned this book about a poor white family in the midst of crisis, from its high school English reading list because of 7 passages which made reference to God or abortion and used curse words such as "bastard," "goddam," and "son of a bitch." None of the board members had actually read the book.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Atkol Video Catalog
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WIRED magazine (Feb. 1996) reported that AOL censored Atkol Video's catalog from its virtual shopping mall for carrying gay titles. AOL gave no censoring criteria when it "cut some titles and retained others."
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Banned From Public Radio: Humor, Commentary and Smart Remarks Your Government DOESN'T Want You To Hear (1991)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Michael Graham
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The title of this first book is literally true: he was banned from the South Carolina Educational Radio Network courtesy of those geniuses in our General Assembly for commentary which poked fun at their 1991 Ethics Act. Graham also has the distinction of being the only person officially fired from his job as communications director for SC Secretary of State Jim Miles by an act of those same courageous geniuses.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You To Read (1995)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Tim C. Leedom, Editor
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The book traces astrological and mythical origins of modern day western religions. A Barnes & Noble bookstore in San Diego refused to stock this book because of its content.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (1971)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Mike Royko
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Ridgefield, CT school board in 1972 banned this book from the high school reading list, claiming it "dowgrades police departments."
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catch 22
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Joseph Heller
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book was banned and/or challenged more than once. It was banned in Srongsville, Ohio in 1972 and that decision was overturned in 1976. It was also challenged in Dallas, Texas (1974) and again in Snoqualmie, Washington (1979).
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catcher in the Rye (1951)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by J. D. Salinger
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a perennial favorite of censors and has been banned in the U.S. and Australia. In 1960, a Tulsa, OK teacher was fired for putting the book on the 11th grade reading list. The teacher was reinstated, but the book was permanently removed from teaching programs. A Minnesota high school administration was attacked for allowing the book in the school library.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1974)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The CIA obtained a court injunction against this book's publication stating the author, a former CIA employee, violated his contract which states that he cannot write about the CIA without the agency's approval. First amendment activists opposed this ruling, "raising the question of whether a citizen can sign away his First Amendment rights." After prolonged litigation, the CIA succeeded in having 168 passages deleted.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beauty's Punishment
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beauty's Release
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Anne Rice (under the pseudonym, A.N. Roquelaure, written in the early 1980s)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">April 28, 1996, the Columbus, Ohio Dispatch reported that following a complaint from a patron in the Columbus Metropolitan Library removed the trilogy of Rice's Sleeping Beauty books and their audio tapes after determining the books were pornographic. These same books were also removed from the Lake Lanier Regional Library system in Gwinnett County, Georgia, in 1992.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daddy's Roommate
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Michael Willhoite
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A favorite of censors, this children's book about gay parenting was the subject of a challenge in the public library. In an all-too-familiar request, a parent complained about references to homosexuality in material for children. The library board voted to uphold basic library principles by retaining the book on its appropriate shelf in the children's section.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deadly Deceits (My 25 Years in the CIA) (1983)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Ralph McGheehee
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The CIA delayed the publication of this book for three years, objecting to 397 passages, even though much of what the author wrote about was already public knowledge.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decamerone
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Giovanni Boccacio (1313-1375)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Cincinnati, an "expurgated" version of Boccacio's Decamerone is confiscated in 1922. In 1926, there is an import ban of the book by the Treasury Department. In 1927, U.S. Customs removes parts of text from the "Ashendene edition" and ships the mutilated copy back to me British publisher in London. In 1932, import ban lifted in Minnesota. In 1934, the New England Watch and Ward Society still bans the book. In 1954, it is still on the black lis tof the "National Organization of Decent Literature."
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dictionary of American Slang
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by T.Y. Crowell, publisher
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Max Rafferty, California superintendent of public instruction in 1963, and his supporters found over 150 "dirty" passages in the book.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't Call Me Brother
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Austin Miles
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1992, former Christian fundamentalist minister, Austin Miles, was sued; charges were that his book, Don't Call Me Brother, was "...a vitriolic attack upon organized Christianity." The $4 million lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court also screamed "libel" and "slander." After a lengthy and costly process, the court ruled that the book was not defamatory.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1-The Drowning of Stephan Jones
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Bette Greene
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2-The Education of Harriet Hatfield
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by May Sarton
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3-Maurice
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by E. M. Forster
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All three of these books, which treat homosexuality in various ways, were removed from a regional high school. The novels' purchase was financed by a grant that teacher Penny Culliton received and was approved by the school superintendent and principal. However, shortly after a local newspaper reported that Culliton was involved with a lesbian and gay support group for young people, the books were found unsuitable and were banned. Maurice and The Education of Harriet Hatfield were seized from the students while they were reading the novels in class. Personal attacks on the teacher and demands for her dismissal have been so vehement that her job is now in jeopardy.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fahrenheit 451
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Ray Bradbury
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book is about censorship and those who ban books for fear of creating too much individualism and independent thought. In late 1998, this book was removed from the required reading list of the West Marion High School in Foxworth, Mississippi. A parent complained of the use of the words "God damn" in the book. Subsequently, the superintendent instructed the the teacher to remove the book from the required reading list.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Families
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Meredith Tax
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A young children's book that creatively describes different family structures, was finally removed by the Fairfax County school board. Meredith Tax's beloved book had been under attack for a long time, during which many individuals and organizations rose to its defense. What's more, Families was praised by the board's own review committees.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flowers in the Attic
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by V.C. Andrews
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The county's board of education decided to remove all school curriculum materials and library books containing any and all "profanity" and "pornography," both concepts ill-defined. The tremendous public outcry made the board backtrack and resolve to review its selection policy. However, after this conciliatory decision, and while the review process still inches along, most of the books in Andrews's popular series Flowers in the Attic were removed from the high-school library for "pornographic" content.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forever
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Judy Blume
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forever censored, this wildly popular teen novel was attacked once again for its frank treatment of adolescent sexuality and was removed from an eighth-grade optional reading list. In Rib Lake, Wisconsin, a school district principal had the book removed from the library after confiscating a copy from a student in the lunchroom, finding "graphic descriptions of sex acts."
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freedom and Order
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Henry Steele Commager
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The U.S. Information Agency had this book banned from its overseas libraries because of its condemnation of American policies in Vietnam.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Here to Eternity
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by James Jones
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book was censored in 1951in Holyoke, Springfield, Massachusetts and in 1953 in Jersey City, New Jersey; blacklisted by National Organization of Decent Literature in 1954.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Glass Teat (1970)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Harlan Ellison
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Glass Teat is a collection of essays which appeared as columns in the Los Angeles Free Press and Rolling Stone during the 1960s. They were critical essay on the subject of television broadcasting; and essays critical of the president and vice-president. The publisher, Ace Pub. Corp. consequently recalled his book and had it removed from bookstores. Years later it was later re-released.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by John Steinbeck
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several months after the book's publication, a St. Louis, MO library ordered 3 copies to be burned for the vulgar words used by its characters. It was also banned in Kansas City and in Oklahoma.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Howl
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Allen Ginsberg
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Officials of the Cold War era saw only willful destruction of American values in a poet's grief over suffocating 1950s convention.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Joy of Sex (1972), More Joy of Sex (1975)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Alex Comfort
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lexington police in 1978 confiscated these sex instruction books in accordance with a new county ordinance prohibiting the display of sexually-oriented publications in places frequented by minors.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Mission (1979)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Harry Mazer
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Against the recommendation of school librarians, teachers, and administrators, the board of the Carroll Middle School removed this novel from the library for its scattered "bad words." The novel, which was named 1979's New York Times Best Book of the Year, is based on the author's experiences in the Air Force during World War II. Mazer said, "It's like a slap in the face of veterans. The book speaks about the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought in that war." Local residents and parents petitioned and protested as well. In a final decision, the board voted 6-1 to return the book.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last of the Wine
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Mary Renault
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fifth-century B.C. Athens is the setting of the historical novel that was challenged in a high school for references to homosexuality. Not only did the complainants and their supporters revile the book, which enlivened an honors history class, but they also attempted to humiliate the teacher by calling him a "sexual predator" and accusing him of trying to "recruit" children to homosexuality. The school board supported the teacher and the novel.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Literature in Society
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an improbable complaint about this textbook, two eminent African-American authors were the main targets of censorship. An excerpt from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was deemed offensive for its use of the word "nigger," and the sexual slang in Nikki Giovanni's poetry was found unacceptable. School officials also found intolerable a reference to homosexuality elsewhere in the book and seized the ever-so-dangerous texts (that include Wordsworth and other immoralists) while 12th-grade students were reading them.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lolita (1955)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Vladimir Nabokov
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although it was published in Paris, it was soon (1956) to be banned there for being obscene. An Argentinian court banned the book in 1959 and again in 1962 ruling that the book "reflected moral disintegration and reviled humanity." In 1960, the New Zealand Supreme Court also banned the book. It was later freely published in France, England, and the U.S.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lord of the Flies
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by William Golding
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Toronto School Board banned this classic from all its schools, claiming it was racist for use of the word "niggers." Even Golding's Nobel Prize in literature did not protect this author's book.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lysistrata
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Aristophanes
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. import ban on Lysistrata was lifted in 1930.This Greek tragedy was written somewhere around 400 B.C.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing New on the Western Front
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Erich Maria Remarque
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Banned in Chicago and Boston, in Austria, and Czechoslovakia in 1929; in Germany in 1930; and in Italy in 1933. There was a public burning in Germany in 1933.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pentagon Papers (1971)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, this 3,000 page history of U.S. involvement in Indochina, was banned from publication by court order. The NY Times was printing portions of it when the order came down. Later that year, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the decision and Bantam proceeded to publish a paperback edition.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Philip Roth
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several libraries and librarians throughout the U.S. were harassed and threatened for carrying this book on their shelves.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Search for Truth in History
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by David Irving
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This video tape has already been banned in three countries.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Satanic Verses
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Salman Rushdie
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran put a price on the head of this author for writing this book which allegedly is critical of the Islam religion. Rushdie, as a result, went into hiding for an indefinite period of time, fearing for his life.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by William Steig
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1977, the Illinois Police Association urged librarians to remove the book, which portrays its characters as animals, and presents the police as pigs. The American Library Association reported similar complaints in 11 other states.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Valachi Papers (1968)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Peter Maas
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Asked by the Justice Dept. to edit the papers of Mafia leader Joseph Valachi, Maas was later sued by the Justice Dept. for trying to publish the memoirs. The reason they said was that the book would hamper law enforcement. The suit was settled and Putname published the book in 1968.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things Your Father Never Taught You
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Robert Masullo
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Production of this lighthearted look at male grooming was delayed by a born-again Christian art director who objected to a description of Japanese furniture arranging as "occultist."
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waco: The Davidian Massacre
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Carol Moore
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This controversial book challenges the government's version of events at Waco. A public library refused to carry the book stating the reason was that the book was privately published.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who Built America?
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple Computer has distributed Who Built America?, an acclaimed history series created for CD-ROM, as part of a free software package for schools buying its computers. When it received protests about material relating to the history of birth control, abortion, and homosexuality, Apple asked Voyager to delete the offending material. Voyager refused, and Apple suspended distribution. Following many protest letters, Apple reversed its decision and resumed distribution.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Worlds In Collison
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Immanuel Velikovsky
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 1950s, the scientific community tried to ban this controversial version of the origins of our solar system because it didn't comport with the "official" version of events. The publisher, MacMillan, was forced to give up publication of the book even though it was on the New York Bestsellers list at the time. If your are interested in this Velikovsky's Worlds In Collision and The Saturn Myth, see David Talbot's video documentary, Remembering the End of the World.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women on Top
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Nancy Friday
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Would-be censors got their way in their demands to remove this book from the Chestatee Public Library in Gainesville ( Hall County ), Georgia. Before a final vote was taken by the library board on the fate of Women on Top, the book was borrowed and "accidentally" destroyed. The board voted not to replace it.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">& Censors and Bookbanners in the United States:
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anti-Defamation League
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barnes and Noble, bookseller, San Diego, California
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christian Voters League
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Columbus Metropolitan Library
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comstock, Anthony - special agent for the U.S. Post Office
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Concerned Women for America - Beverly LaHay, president
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drake, North Dakota - school board
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dworkin, Andrea - feminist writer
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Educational Research Analysts - Mel & Norma Gabler, founders
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Graves County, Kentucky school board
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lake Lanier Regional Library system in Gwinnett County, Georgia
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MacKinnon, Catherine - feminist
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marion High School, Foxworth, Missippi
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McCarthy, Joseph R. - U.S. Senator
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meese Commission
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored Peole (NAACP)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Assn. of Christian Educators (Robert Simonds, founder)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Federation of Decency (Rev. Donald Wildmon, exec. dir.)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Security Agency (NSA)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New England Watch and Ward Society
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olathe, Kansas - school system
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parade Magazine - national magazine
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rafferty, Max - CA superintendent of public instruction (1963)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rib Lake, Wisconsin - school board
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roberts, Cokie - ABC News Commentator
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roman Catholic Church - Index of Prohibited Books
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sixty Minutes, CBS News Program Feature Story on Internet
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stahl, Leslie - 60 Minutes News Commentator
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talmadge, Eugene - governor of Georgia (1941)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Bureau of Customs
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Information Agency (USIA)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Justice Department
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Postal Service
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Treasury Department
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">West Marion High School in Foxworth, Mississippi by School Superintendent
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Censors and Bookbanners Outside the United States:
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alan Dutton, C.A.E.R.S - Canada
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ayatollah Khomeni of Iran
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Canada Customs at B.C. border crossing (1998)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Canadian government
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Canadian Jewish Congress - Canada
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City of Westminster, London, England
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Matas, B'nai Brith - Canada
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Franco of Spain
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frederick William II of Prussia
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">German Communists and Nazis
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greek ruling military clique (1967)
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Irish government
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mayor Linda Larson, Town of Oliver - Canada
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sol Littman, Simon Wiesenthal Centre - Canada
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soviet Union government
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Supreme Court of Australia
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Synod of Canterbury at St. Paul's, London, England
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ujjal Dosanjh, Attorney General, British Columbia – Canada
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