Where Was the Book the Color Purple Banned At?
Question by Chelsea: Where was the book The Color Purple banned at?
doing a project for school and need to know where that book was banned..please add a website with your answer! Thanks!
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Answer by VïvïÐ §kïê§
Challenged as appropriate reading for Oakland, Calif. High School honors class (1984) due to the work’s “sexual and social explicitness” and its “troubling ideas about race relations, man’s relationship to God, African history, and human sexuality.” After nine months of haggling and delays, a divided Oakland Board of Education gave formal approval for the book’s use.
Rejected for purchase by the Hayward, Calif. school’s trustee (1985) because of “rough language” and “explicit sex scenes.”
Removed from the open shelves of the Newport News, Va. school library (1986) because of its “profanity and sexual references” and placed in a special section accessible only to students over the age of 18 or who have written permission from a parent.
Challenged at the public libraries of Saginaw, Mich. (1989) because of its language and “explicitness.”
Challenged as an optional reading assigned in Ten Sleep, Wyo. schools (1990).
Challenged as a reading assignment at the New Burn, N.C. High School (1992) because the main character is raped by her stepfather.
Banned in the Souderton, Pa. Area School District (1992) as appropriate reading for 10th graders because it is “smut.”
Challenged on the curricular reading list at Pomperaug High School in Southbury, Conn. (1995) because sexually explicit passages are appropriate high school reading.
Challenged at the St. Johns County Schools in St. Augustine, Fla. (1995).
Challenged, but retained, as part of the reading list for Advanced Placement English classes at Northwest High Schools in High Point, N.C. (1996). The book was challenged because it is “sexually graphic and violent.”
Removed from the Jackson County, W. Va. school libraries (1997) along with sixteen other titles.
Removed from the Ferguson High School library in Newport News, Va. (1999). Students may request and borrow the book with parental approval.
Challenged, along with seventeen other titles in the Fairfax County, VA elementary and secondary libraries (2002), by a group called Parents Against Bad Books in Schools. The group contends the books “contain profanity and descriptions of drug abuse, sexually explicit conduct, and torture.
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