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The 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy From A Student’S Perspective, 36 Years Later, Beth Jane Toren
The 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy From A Student’S Perspective, 36 Years Later, Beth Jane Toren
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A brief personal narrative published in the West Virginia Library Association Newsletter recounting a first-hand childhood experience with banned books and how it informed a librarian's interest in neutrality and inclusion in libraries. Among the protests and boycotts, schools were bombed and dynamited, houses were stoned, and school buses were shot at.