Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
We hear about a hallmark of African-American literature and a road trip into the wilds of Texas our librarian once took.
Banned
1997 - Virginia - Challenged for sexual explicitness, but retained on the Stonewall Jackson High School's academically advanced reading list in Brentsville. A parent objected to the novel's language and sexual explicitness.
Resources
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.
"Dances and Dames" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/