AUTHORS
Author of Tom Sawyer as well as Huckleberry Finn
Who is Mark Twain?
Book by Anne Frank
What is Diary of a Young Girl?
___________ was a prime target of censors in Boston
What is obscenity?
The Rabbits’ Wedding, a 1954 children’s book by Garth Williams that depicted a white rabbit marrying a black rabbit, was challenged because
What is opponents felt it encouraged "interracial" relationships?
Most earlier book bans were spurred by
Who are religious leaders?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A novella written by John Steinbeck and actively discouraged this year at AMS
What is The Pearl?
Multiple states outlawed this
What is expression of anti-slavery sentiments?
Some felt that Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird encouraged this
What is Communism?
True or false: the American Library Association reports that the rate of book-banning attempts went down in 2022 and 2023
False. There were a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books in 2023—up 65 percent from the previous year, which was itself a record-breaking year.
English Renaissance writer whose works have been banned
Who is William Shakespeare?
A pamphlet published in 1650 by prominent Massachusetts Bay colonist William Pynchon
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption
A reason given for banning Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Discussion of the protagonist's maturing physique
A novel that intended to expose the evils of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Name the state where free "Black" minister Sam Green was sentenced to 10 years in the state penitentiary for owning a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is Maryland?
Wrote an article about banned books, published in National Geographic Magazine
Who is Erin Blakemore?
Walt Whitman’s book, which was called a “darling morsel of literary filth”
Leaves of Grass
Judy Blume's 1970 best seller Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret has been challenged in schools across the United States for this reason
What is its portrayal of female puberty and religion?
Over the years authorities have banned some literature from classrooms because its content was so deemed
What is controversial, obscene, or otherwise objectionable?
Pynchon’s pamphlet and Uncle Tom's Cabin were both censored in this manner
What is book burning?
NJ-born author of "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret"
Who is Judy Blume?
A fireproof edition of this often-banned book was created to raise awareness about the proliferation of censorship
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Sanger’s Family Limitation was forced to go underground, which resulted in this
What is restricting the dissemination of knowledge about contraception?
Copies of these were locked in a restricted room known as the Inferno
What are the most controversial books?
The incendiary issue that alarmed would-be censors in the 1850s South
What is the enslavement of people?