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Article: Fight heats up over censoring schoolbooks.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 20, 1984
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The battle over censorship in the nation's public schools is now heating up in school boards and courtrooms across the U.S.
In communities from Church Hill, Tenn., to Folsom, Calif., people are taking sides over what students should be taught in the classroom and what they should be allowed to read in school libraries--
* The American Civil Liberties Union went to court to get Ms. magazine returned to open shelves in the Mount Diablo, Calif., Unified School District. Parents had complained about articles on subjects such as abortion.
* Parents in Scottsboro, Ala., succeeded in having John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men removed from high-school ...