BANNED BOOKS: "We Believe in an Educated Citizenry"

The ACLU ofTexas Banned Books Project exists: * To raise awareness about book challenges and the banning of books in public school libraries across the state; * To encourage school officials to use professional librarian standards when confronted with a challenge, and; * To encourage ACLU affiliates, library associations, and public interest groups to conduct surveys in their states. Library resources found to meet the standards set in the materials selection or collection development policy should not be removed or restricted from public access until after an adversary hearing resulting in a final judicial determination. * Contact the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom and your state intellectual freedom committee to inform them of the complaint and to enlist their support and the assistance of other agencies. The principles and procedures discussed above apply to all kinds of resource related complaints or attempts to censor and are supported by groups such as the National Education Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Council of Teachers of English, as well as the American Library Association. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Color Purple by Alice Walker Ulysses by James Joyce Beloved by Toni Morrison The Lord of the Flies by William Golding 1984 by George Orwell Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Animal Farm by George Orwell The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway As T Lay Dying by William Faulkner A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Native Son by Richard Wright One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The Call of the Wild by Jack London Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Lady Chatter ley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Awakeningby Kate Chopin In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Sophie's Choice by William Styron Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut A Separate Peace by John