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This book is just utter nonsense, so I make a bunch of stuff up.
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1976 - Australia - Banned for obscenity but eventually released uncut in 2000
1976 - Canada - rejected by all providence except Quebec and British Columbia, eventually getting a pass in 1991 from all providence
1976 - Belgium - Banned for sexual content. Was the last film censored in the country and the only European country to ban this film.
1987 - Israel - banned for pornography
1991 - Portugal - Was released this year to protests, but some including Archbishop Braga D Eurico Dias Nogueria "had learned more in ten minutes of the film than his entire life."
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Our librarian goes back to the brothels of New Orleans Storyville for the story of a little girl learning to be a little girl despite growing up very fast.
1978 - Argentina - labeled by the Videla regime as "pornographic"
1978 - 1983 - South Africa - banned due to apartheid restrictions
1978-1995 - Ontario, Canada - banned by the film board but overturned in 1995
Malle, Louis (dir.) Pretty Baby. Paramount Pictures, 1978.
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A young boy stops growing but keeps beating that goddamn drum. Just keeps on beating the drum and screaming.
Originally banned in Ireland upon release, but allowed after a review
1980 - Ontario, Canada - banned as child pornography
1997 - Oklahoma - Local groups brought the case before Judge Richard Freeman. He was shown a lone scene. Under obscenty laws, all copies were seized from rental stores. Police went to people's houses who had the movie rented and demanded the copies, threatening procecution if they didnot. Michael Campfield, ACLU member, sued the police for infringing on his rights and illegal confication. In 2001, all cases were settled and the movies returned.
Schlöndorff, Volker (dir.). Tin Drum. Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, 1979.
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Join us while we talk about one of the most influential and censored movies and why it should really be The Texas Sledgehammer Massacre.
Read MoreA problematic author with a story containing a very muddled message about suicide.
2012 - 3rd most challenged book, according to ALA; Challenged for drugs, alcohol, smoking, being sexually explicit, suicide, and being unsuited for age group
2017
Alberta, Canada - St. Vincent Elementary School in Edmonton banned all mention of the series on campus
Colorado - At Mesa County School District, the curriculum director ordered librarians to stop circulating the book. Librarians and counselors deliberated for three hours and determined the book was not as graphic as the TV series. Parents in the school distrcit recieved notices alerting them to the possible influence of the series.
Illinois - Challenged and under review in the sophomore-level Academic English II classes at Lemont Hishg School District 210 because a parent considered it "pornographic."
ALA. "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009." Retrieved on 17 Aug 01 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
Ahsan, Sadaf. "Netflix adds trigger warnings to 13 Reasons Why after Canadian school board bans series for 'glamorizing' suicide." National Post. May 2, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2017 from http://nationalpost.com/entertainment/television/netflix-adds-trigger-warnings-to-13-reasons-why-after-canadian-school-board-bans-series-for-glamorizing-suicide
Asher, Jay. Thirteen Reasons Why. Razorbill. New York, 2007.
Collins, Cathy. "Thirteen Reasons Why Controversy." Intellectual Freedom Blog. The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association. June 7, 2017. Retrieved on March 9, 2018 from http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=9793
Highfill, Samantha. "13 Reasons Why: Netflix says Jay Asher 'was not involved' in season 2." EW.com. Retrieved on March 9, 2018 from http://ew.com/tv/2018/02/13/13-reasons-why-season-2-jay-asher/
Titus, Ron. "Thirteen Reasons Why." Marshall University Libraries. June 28, 2017. Retrieved on March 9, 2018 from http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/books/thirteenreasonswhy.asp
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A crazy, racist little fairy tale, Sambo learns to steal from bullies and eat hella pancakes.
1956 - Canada - Removed by the Toronto, Ontario board of education after complaints from several groups that "the popular book was a cause of mental suffering to Negroes in particular and children in general."
1959 - New York - A black resident of New York City challenged the book at a school library, calling it racially derogatory. The book was eventually restored to library shelves.
1964 - Nebraska - School superintendent of Lincoln school system ordered it removed from open shelves due to the inherent racism of the book. The book was placed on reserved shelves with a note explaining it would be available as optional material.
1971 - Alabama - Montgomery schools banned the book for being "inappropriate" and "not in keeping with good human relations."
1972
United Kingdom - General attack in schools and libraries for symbolizing "the kind of dangerous and obsolete books that must go."
Canada - Hamilton, Ontario teachers ordered students to tear the story from their books; the Montreal-based Canadian National Black Coalition began a war to remove the book from school and library shelves; New Brunswick banned it entirely.
Texas - Dallas school libraries removed the book because it "distorts a child's view of black people."
Associated Press. "COMPANY NEWS; Sambo's to Alter Northeast Names." New York Times, 1981. Retrieved January 5, 2018 from http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/11/business/company-news-sambo-s-to-alter-northeast-names.html
Bannerman, Helen. "Little Black Sambo." Applewood Books, 1921. Bedford, Massachusetts.
Doyle, Robert P. "Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read." American Library Association, 2014.
Golus, Carrie. "Sambo’s subtext." Chicago Magazine. 2010. Retrieved January 5, 2018 from http://magazine.uchicago.edu/1010/chicago_journal/sambos-subtext.shtml
Pancake Parlour. "Helen Bannerman on the Train to Kodaikanal." Retrieved January 5, 2018 from http://web.archive.org/web/20060820084143/http://pancakeparlour.com/Wonderland/Highlights/Thefuture/Short_Stories/Bannerman/bannerman.html
A small New England town is rocked by the scandal of everyday life in one of the most forgotten popular books of the twentieth century.
1957 - Tennessee - Knoxville activated a city ordinance that said the City Board of Review could block items deemed obscene. Local booksellers were forbidden to sell it. One newsstand owner challenged the ordinance and it was ruled unconsitutional.
1958
Ireland - Banned until the introduction of the Censorship of Publications Bill in 1967.
Canada - Temporary ban lifted
1959 - Rhode Island - The Rhonde Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth bought action against Bantam and three other New York paperback publishers. The Rhode Island Superior Court upheld the decision, which was later reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bantam Boos, Inc, et al, v. Joseph A Sullivan, et al.
Callahan, Michael. "Peyton Places' Real Victim." Vanity Fair. Retrieved on 2017 Nov 1 from https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/03/peytonplace200603
Doyle, Robert P. "Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read." American Library Association, 2014.
Metalious, Grace. "Peyton Place." Northeastern Univsersity Press. Boston, 1956, 1999.
Our humanity is building the hope that we are better than we are.
1974 - Texas - Challenged at the Dallas Independent School District HIgh School libraries.
1981
North Carolina - Challenged at the Owen High School for "demoralizing inasmuch as it implies that man is little more than an animal."
South Dakota - Challenged at the Sully Buttes High School.
1983 - Arizona - Challenged at the Marana High School as inappropriate.
1984 - Texas - Challenged at the Olney Independent School District for "excessive violence and bad language."
1988 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada 0 Board of Education ruled on June 23, 1988 that the novel is "racist and recommended that it be removed from all schools." Parents and members of the black community complained about a reference to "niggers" in the book and said it denigrates blacks.
1992 - Iowa - Challenged in the Waterloo schools for profanity, passages about sex, and defamatory statements about minorities, God, women, and the disabled.
2000 - New York - Challenged but retained in Bloomfield on the ninth grade English reading list.
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
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A group of boys trash a house and nearly kill a girl, and that's just in the first few paragraphs. Book was banned for alcohol, violence, and sexual content.
#41 on 100 most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999
#30 on Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
1994 - California - Pulled from school libraries in Stockton after parents complained it glorified alcoholism and violence, contains a violent rape scene, and profanity
1998 - Ontario, Canada - Complaint from a parent in Simcoe County for violence
2000
Florida - Removed from Carver Middle School library in Leesburg after parents complained about content and language
Texas - Restricted in Arlington middle and high schools for parental permission for violence
2001 - Pennsylvania - Challenged in Tamaqua Area School District for not being age appropriate.
2003 - Kansas - Removed from a Baldwin ninth grade class by the superintendent because "it was clear to him it wasn't fit for his own daughter or granddaughter" after complaints of profanity and sexual content.
2005 - New Jersey - Challenged and retained at Cherry Hill Public Library's young adult section by a parent claiming the book was unfit for the age group with "deplorable" content.
We All Fall Down the Center of Controversy in Arlington School Libraries - American Libraries
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. 2014.
We All Fall Down By Robert Cormier - Freedom to Read Canada
Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 - ALA
100 most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999 - ALA
We All Fall Down (Robert Cormier novel) - Wikipedia
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier - Google Books
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