AUTHOR: Maya Angelou
ISBN: 0553279378
Plot Summary: Classic tale of growing up black in the American South in the 1930s and 40s and what it meant and means to live in a white society from a black perspective.
Complaints: Sexual content, racism, offensive language, violence, unsuited to age group.
Round Rock School District, Texas, attempted to remove from the curriculum, challenging the work as "pornographic." In Columbus, Mississippi, 30 copies were snatched by school officials and a temporary ban inititated at Caldonia Middle School on the grounds it is "too sexually explicit to be read by children."
Solonor Says Ban It Because: There's swearing and sex in it...those people don't know how to live in our country...it's just the way "they" are, you know...Besides, if you don't tell kids about prejudices, they won't have any!
Links
Crofton Online: The Case Against "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"