Banned1987
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman haunted by the ghost of her dead daughter. Morrison confronts the intergenerational trauma of slavery and the impossible choices it forced upon Black mothers.
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Why this book is challenged
- •sexually explicit content
- •violence
- •racial themes
- •bestiality
Challenge History
Wentzville School District Libraries
Wentzville, Missouri
Sexually explicit passages and content related to bestiality
February 7, 2022school district
Virginia State Legislature
Richmond, Virginia
Governor's executive order to review sexually explicit materials in schools, prompted by parent complaints about Beloved and The Bluest Eye
January 25, 2022state legislature
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