NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- Last fall, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to the state's school board association saying public schools shouldn't have 'obscene' books and called on certain books about gender and sexual orientation, among others, to be removed.
NEW YORK — -- Last fall, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to the state's school board association saying public schools shouldn't have"obscene" books and called on certain books about gender and sexual orientation, among others, to be removed.
Books focusing on LGBTQ and racial issues that critics say are inappropriate for students are being banned across the country. Now, some librarians are joining together to protest those bans. FReadom Fighters started as a social media movement with the hashtag"#FReadom" in protest of Krause's request, and then blossomed into activism.
"I felt that I had a duty as a parent, because this type of material is so over the top in terms of inappropriateness … I felt I had a duty as a parent, to warn other parents and to bring it to the attention of the school board, because quite honestly, you know, I didn't know at that moment who's making these decisions as to what books are put into our school library," Stacy Langton, a Virginia mother and co-founder of Mama Grizzly, a conservative grassroots organization that...
"What we found overall is in this polling is that vast majorities of all voters from all political persuasions, and parents, especially don't support book bans. What we're hearing from is a very vocal minority," Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, tells ABC News.
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