![]() ![]() "Those protests were in tiny white towns around the country. " live in a very different society than the society that adults like me grew up in," she says. Knox draws a connection between the Black Lives Matter uprisings of summer 2020 and recent news. We're deciding how we talk about our history, what it means to be a good citizen, and what we want kids to know about our history." "We do not have an agreed upon way of telling our history. ![]() "We're at an inflection point in our society," says Emily Knox, associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom received 330 book challenge reports from September 1 to December 1, 2021-more than twice the number of reports for the entire year of 2020. ![]() Book challenges are not new to school and public libraries, but recent bans have been unprecedented in number and scope. ![]()
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