What You Can Do
Fight Censorship in Your Community
Report a book challenge:
* Contact The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
(ABFFE).
* Contact
The American Library Association (ALA).
* Use the
Book
Censorship Toolkit, which includes tips for responding to challenges, from
the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Read About Book Banning
Read about recent book challenges:
* The Kids' Right
to Read Project, a collaboration of the American Booksellers Foundation for
Free Expression (ABFFE) and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC),
responds to book challenges and bans in schools and libraries.
* The American Library Association provides lists of
the most frequently challenged books.
* ABFFE's
Banned Books Week Handbook contains lists of frequently challenged titles.
Visit Web sites of pro-censorship groups
* PABBIS: Parents Against
Bad Books in Schools
* ClassKS: Citizens for
Literary Standards in Schools
* Citizens for
Academic Responsibility
Additional Resources
* The American Library Association Office for
Intellectual Freedom,
Banned
Books Week Resources.
*The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression,
Banned Books Week Handbook.
* The American Library Association Office for Intellectual
Freedom,
Library Bill of Rights.
* The National Coalition Against Censorship,
"Censorship in Schools:
Learning, Speaking, and Thinking Freely: The First Amendment in Schools."
* The National Council of Teachers of English,
"The
Student's Right to Read."
* PEN
American Center, Freedom to Write.
Wear a Free Speech Button or T-Shirt
Purchase Banned Books Week products from the American Library Association.
Purchase FREADOM products from ABFFE.
Buy a Freadom Gift Card from your local independent bookseller.
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Exercise Your First Amendment Rights - Read a Banned Book!