The school library in Oconee County, Georgia, USA removed nine
V.C. Andrews
novels due to their "filthiness" and John Steinbeck's
Red Pony,
which was challenged due to profanity. The school board voted
to evaluate all 40,000 volumes in the system's library and remove
any books and teaching materials from the public school that contain
"explicit sex and pornography".
"Bare breasts" in Hans Christian Andersen's
Little Mermaid
prompted a challenge in Bedford, Texas, USA.
In Yakima, Washington, USA, Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man
was challenged due to "profanity and images of violence and sexuality".
It was eventually retained.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
was "restricted" at the Jacksonville, Florida, USA middle school libraries
because it presents a racist view of white people and is a "how-to manual
for crime".
Sources: Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, September - December, 1994;
January - March, 1995.
