Activism grows nationwide in response to school book bans
The responses have come from organizations large and small, and sometimes from individuals such as Ferrell.
Legal action has been one strategy. In Missouri, the ACLU filed suit in federal court in mid-February toas “Gender Queer,” Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and Keise Laymon’s memoir “Heavy.” The civil liberties union has also filed open records requests in Tennessee and Montana over book bans, and a warning letter in Mississippi against what it described as the “unconstitutionality of public library book bans.
Two anti-banning initiatives were launched in Pennsylvania. In Kutztown, eighth grader Joslyn Diffenbaugh formed a banned book club last fall that began with a reading of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” The Pennridge Improvement Project has started a drive to purchase books that have been removed from schools, including Leslea Newman’s “Heather has Two Mommies” and Kim Johnson’s “This is My America,” and place them in small free libraries around the district.
Trying to get a book restored is often like other kinds of community activism — letter writing, speeches, attending meetings.
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