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“We Need To Tell The Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect On Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom to Read

bookriot.com/book-censorship-5-year-report

A single viral Fairfax school board speech in September 2021 marked the turning point when book bans went from scattered complaints to an organized political movement. Trace how coordinated groups and state legislatures turned "parental rights" into librarian criminalization laws, and how thirteen states have since pushed back with freedom-to-read bills.

— via Book Riot, Kelly Jensen

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