To Kill a Mockingbird
Why To Kill a Mockingbird be banned
2009
Retained in the English curriculum by the Cherry Hill (NJ) Board of Education. A resident had objected to the novel's depiction of how blacks are treated by members of a racist white community in an Alabama town during the Depression. The resident reared the book would upset black children reading it.
2008
Retained in the English curriculum by the Cherry Hill (NJ) Board of Education. A resident had objected to the novel's depiction of how blacks are treated by members of a racist white community in an Alabama town during the Depression. The resident reared the book would upset black children reading it.
2006
Challenged at the Brentwood (TN) Middle School because the book contains "profanity" and "contains adult themes such as sexual intercourse, rape, and incest." The complainants also contend that the book's use of racial slurs promotes "racial hatred, racial division, racial separation, and promotes white supremacy."
2005
Challenged at the Stanford Middle School in Durham (NC) because the 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel uses the word "nigger". Challenged, but retained in the Normal (IL) Community High Schools sophomore literature class despite concerns the novel is degrading to African Americans.
2004
Challenged in the Normal (IL) Community High Schools sophomore literature class as being degrading to African Americans. Challenged at the Stanford Middle School in Durham (NC) because the 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel uses the word "nigger".
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