 | Books cannot be removed from a school library simply because we don't like what they say | | Decided: | June 25, 1982 | | Issue(s): | School, Censorship/national security | | Increases: | Expression, Press, 1st amendment, Tinker v Des Moines, Board of Education v Barnette | | Decreases: |
| | Read the text of the case More details: A school board tried to remove books from the school library shelf claiming the books were "antiAmerican, antiChristian, antiSemitic, and just plain filthy." The Best Stories by Negro Writers and Slaughterhouse Five were two of the books. The Court ruled "Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in these books…" so as to restrict a student's right to learn "in a narrowly partisan or political manner". | | | Article continues below...
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