the first book was banned in the united states on july 1996.
the first book was banned in the united states on july 1996.
when was the first book banned in the united states?
july 1996
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banned books week is an awareness campaign, led annually by the american library association, in an attempt to protect freedom of speech by celebrating books that the ala claims others have banned or attempted to ban from various venues. in 2006, discovery institute fellow john west nominated the book "of pandas and people", on the basis of it being "at the heart of" "kitzmiller v. dover area school district". however the decision in "kitzmiller" made no order regarding "pandas", rendering the basis for considering it to be "banned" highly tenuous, and the assertion was dismissed by deborah caldwell-stone, deputy director of the american library association's office for intellectual freedom who does not consider the book banned. the discovery institute continued to misrepresent the book as banned in 2007, with the statement that:
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